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2081
2009 · Film · short · 25 min
Directed by Chandler Tuttle
2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal...." The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage.
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TL;DR - a dystopia where anyone with an "advantage" is "handicapped" to make everyone "equal". Advantages such as intelligence and beauty must not be used to let anyone get ahead.
It was adapted into a short film - 2081 - and it's very very good. It's free on this site: https://www.teaching2081.org/watch-the-film#form
> it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal.
The film "2081" based on the short story "Harrison_Bergeron" depicts such a world, where everyone is forced to be equal, at all cost:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282015/
The ~25 minute short film titled 2081 of this story is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVHgpCnBmk
IMHO, the short film 2081 [0], based on this story, is also worth watching.
[0]: http://www.finallyequal.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2081_(film)
I'm having trouble following.
>>> Power laws are inevitable and acknowledging this is the starting point to finding a solution.
>> It wasn't too long ago that there was a power law in owning people.
> if you look up ownership statistics for slaves they indeed followed a power law,
Your first statement is incomplete, at best. Thank you for explaining. As it stands, not sure how that explanation applies to the assertion.
> Applying descriptive social statistics as prescriptive policy is idiocy.
Not sure what that has to do with the topic either. The issue is with the articles' assertion that you can avoid the power law via political will, akin to "equality in outcome" or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2081_(film)
Social statistics have to be taken into consideration, or solutions are broken conceptually.
There was a short movie about this, it's called 2081.