> There’s a serious risk of this runaway momentum building an ever-growing chain of misguided agreement.
to think we might alter our society to redistribute wealth to those who are most lacking, lifting people out of poverty and improving the world, when we DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO, turns out those losers were talentless and therefore deserve nothing. Horrifying.
In that sentence he's talking about the risk of propagating flawed research. A few paragraphs up he makes it clear that he doesn't hold the view you ascribe to him:
> I care deeply about the issue of growing wealth inequality, and would love for research to be done that finds concrete evidence of how luck and privilege play a role in it.
yeah I don't buy that. Someone looking to identify flawed research can choose from a vast amount of subject areas to focus upon. The research that this person chooses to attempt to debunk is IMO telling.
to think we might alter our society to redistribute wealth to those who are most lacking, lifting people out of poverty and improving the world, when we DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO, turns out those losers were talentless and therefore deserve nothing. Horrifying.