Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "8 Impossible Thought Experiments - Cosmic Skeptic" video.

  1. "Equal opportunity" is such an interesting propostion because different people interpret it differently. I definitely think it as meritocracy: it doesn't matter how you acquired your current skills, the current excellence gets you benefits. And it makes sense to give some minimum amount of support for all people to avoid missing people with lots of potential but coming from poor families. However, once you're maybe 16 years old, if you don't have the skills, you shouldn't have shortcuts even if your family is very rich. I'm totally okay with rich family paying for extra private education to improve changes of their kids but I definitely wouldn't accept "pay tuition fee to get a university slot even if you're missing the minimum skills required officially".
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