All Men Are Created Equal Not
My apologies, but Thomas Jefferson was wrong, perhaps just this once. Not [all men are created equal]. (I won't split hair over whether it should be all men are not created equal or all men are created not equal.) You must have heard of this anecdote before: if every possession in the world today were confiscated and then divided out equally among every living person, after ten minutes, the whole world will be unequal again, assuming everyone acts rationally . There will be the Bill Gates'es who would successfully trade their bottle caps for medals. There will be others who would give away their farms for something trivial, trivial as in trivial to you and me. The ugly and yet beautiful fact is that the world functions because of inequality. If all men are equal, the world grinds to a complete halt. Life freezes, and, if the equality is really maintained, everyone drops dead. Society works because everyone places a different value on the same thing....