Inequality and discrimination or classism based on said inequality is a profound and, to a certain extent, inextricable part of human relationships.
We are only more aware of the inequalities that become fashionable, and only a handful of them have been the subject of scientific studies.
From ageism to fatphobia
Inequalities such as height (there is a correlation between salaries and height of workers, and also between attractiveness and salary), age (they are already starting to talk about ageism), strabismus, stuttering, ugliness (in some courts, prettier actors are already offered to represent clients with scars on their faces because These receive percentage-wise higher penalties.), the extra kilos (we already talk about fatphobia), character (the kind, hypocritical and ballsy receive more gifts than the rest)...
As it explains Daniel Bernabe in his book The diversity trap:
Are systems of privilege, oppression and revision an effective way to confront inequality? Where, then, was the capital-labor conflict? However, we must give an urgent answer to these questions, if we do not want the strength of the collective to end up diluted in the irremediable individualism of the identity.
Economic inequality is one of the greatest sources of social problems. However, Addressing it is not easy at all..
Much research suggests that humans are tribal creatures, and consequently show a strong bias against those they perceive as different from themselves and favoritism toward those they perceive as similar.
So that, Where are we headed? There are perhaps two alternatives. May this madness reach paroxysm and implode, as happened with Puritanism three centuries ago, and a time of morally accepted political incorrectness will come...
Or what let's develop an algorithm that allows us to calculate, based on millions of parameters, how discriminated against one person is compared to another. You take out the app on your mobile phone, you point to the person in front of you, it calculates the skin phototype, height, facial symmetry, sex, ethnicity, income, diction, etc... and in the end it assigns a number that you can compare with yours.
Based on that number you establish a certain asymmetric relationship. It can also be used to go to a job interview or apply for a mortgage. If you suffered abuse as a child or your mother drank during your pregnancy and now you lack self-control because a part of your brain was not properly innervated, well, they should give you privileged fiscal, labor and even social treatment to balance the scales and for all of us to be equal, that is, perfect reflexivity, transitivity and symmetry in life's opportunities.
So that we are only unequal in the factor that we decide is truly born from a personal, volitional and subjective effort, without external influences, nor socioeconomic merits or demerits. Nothing less.
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The entelechy of equality or why we focus more on some discriminations and not others
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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