Okay, but the reason I thought you cared about the majority's welfare is because of this-- "...it’s more valuable for us to have large amounts of resources to be concentrated in the hands of evolutionally superior people."
I assumed the "us" there was society at large.
Idk about a contradiction. Your post made it seem like intellectuals are all just one class of people who could effectively manage resources alongside one another. I mentioned disagreement mainly to point out that there would still be inefficiencies with smart people at the helm.
I think disagreement is a decent reason for egalitarianism though. It encourages mutual respect between people with differences, which helps to avoid violence because everyone's opinion gets a fair shot. People tend to get indignant and start uprisings when they feel they're being oppressed and treated unfairly, after all.
Is it normal that I utterly despise modern society?
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Okay, but the reason I thought you cared about the majority's welfare is because of this-- "...it’s more valuable for us to have large amounts of resources to be concentrated in the hands of evolutionally superior people."
I assumed the "us" there was society at large.
Idk about a contradiction. Your post made it seem like intellectuals are all just one class of people who could effectively manage resources alongside one another. I mentioned disagreement mainly to point out that there would still be inefficiencies with smart people at the helm.
I think disagreement is a decent reason for egalitarianism though. It encourages mutual respect between people with differences, which helps to avoid violence because everyone's opinion gets a fair shot. People tend to get indignant and start uprisings when they feel they're being oppressed and treated unfairly, after all.