Difference between revisions of "Equality"

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Meme

Given some metric and some Entity then each individual in the population will have equal parts of that measure.

Context

When some Individual Entity has some attribute, say mass or energy, as some other individual, or some other time, then the two instances are said to have Symmetry and Equality (qv).

Several hundred years in the past humans were not judged equal by any known measurement process. Each member of one class or cast might have equality among their Individuals but not from one class to another.

After the Industrial Revolution takes hold of an economy, we see a great leveling of people, as for example in 1980 in the US. After a time the capitalist system is able to reestablish inequality on pretty much the same terms as before the revolution. When that happens, the underclasses get distressed and, in a democracy, will vote for someone who promises to redress the balance.^[1] The technologists and venture capitalist that brought the revolution will work together to propose political solutions which are advantageous to the both of them.

In 2024 the challenge of accepting what level of Equality society must provide to its Individuals is creating turmoil, even while the next revolution of the Artificial Intelligence is threatening even more turmoil.

Problems

Clearly since human history has not endowed each Individual with full equality, the Conservative Systems of laws follow, to one extent or another, to limit Equality for the current populations of Individuals.

The struggle between conservative and radical solutions depends, almost entirely, on the amount of Equality to provide and which Entity class will be determined to share in that Equality.^[2] Note that the conservatives expected that there would be a propertied class that was able to expropriate the land for their own exploitation.

In physics the gauge principle is used to determine which measures and which Individual particle has equality of that measure. More precisely we say: a gauge principle specifies a procedure for obtaining an interaction term from a free Lagrangian which is symmetric with respect to a continuous symmetry—the results of localizing (or gauging) the global symmetry group must be accompanied by the inclusion of additional fields (such as the electromagnetic field), with appropriate kinetic and interaction terms in the action.

The difference between society and physics is interesting in that both find themselves is turmoil, but for different reasons. The laws of physics have not fully recovered from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The social contract has been renegotiated quite frequently as a result of economic changes in the handling of first energy and then information. See the wiki on Technology Acceptance.

Solutions

Always the Federalist, John Adams's understanding of Equality was nuanced, reflecting both a commitment to the fundamental equality of all individuals in the eyes of the law and a recognition of natural inequalities in abilities, talents and birth. While he embraced the idea of equality before the law and the rights of all, he also believed in the existence of inherent differences among people, suggesting that some were naturally more suited for leadership and that society could and should create inequalities to ensure its well-being.

Thomas Jefferson had a more expansive view on Equality and took over the presidency from John Adams with that view. His ideal was primacy of the yeoman farmer in an agrarian society. That worked well while there as free land to appropriate from the native tribes.

These two views continue to struggle today in most of the world's governments and even in the governance of the Identifier systems that governments propose for their populations.

References

1. ↑ Wm H. Davidow +1, The Autonomous Revolution
2. ↑ Russel Kirk, The Conservative Mind ISBN 978-0895261717