Reply #71: There have to be poor folks even if there aren't going to be rich folks. [View All]

[Donald Ian Rankin]

No-one has ever come up with a method that would successfully eliminate poverty.

Introducing universal degree-level education will lead to more poor people, not fewer. So yes, in that sense I am rationalising inequality - if you educate everyone equally then either a lot of people will be wasting their time and the state will be wasting a lot of tax payer's money, or no-one will get educated well. However, the thing I'm advocating basing inequality on - academic ability - is one I think it's perfectly fair to reward.

I don't think highly of being called "disgusting, sociopathic, selfish and regressive", and I think it's especially contemptible to do it implicitly by without even having the courage to come out and do it outright.

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?