Friday, August 19, 2011

You just want to redistribute other people's advantages, not your own

I had forgot about Prof. Calabresi's famous query:

It’s like Guido Calabresi used to tell his students on the first day of classes at Yale. Are you in favor of high taxes? Yes. Are you in favor of high spending? Yes. Do you want to see your seats at Yale redistributed to people with lower test scores? Silence. Aha, he would say, you just want to redistribute other people’s advantages, not your own.”

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