Unrest.

Much of it is is due to accepting equality of outcome.

I think it's actually deeper.

Equality of outcome was not even fair if I was the only one subject to it.

It is due to a belief in "caring for the weak" and being morally justified in everything.

If I did twice as much work than the year prior, I'd expect to get paid twice as much.

you know fellas

My pay does not even have to compare to anyone else's.

sometimes Donald Trump is not that great

"The right sees the left as wrong; the left sees the right as evil."

Equality of outcome is one of the most harebrained economic models you could choose.

It only sounds fair to a toddler.

As such the left believes it is the hero and will do anything it needs to win.

Equality of outcome for unequal work means that whoever worked harder got less per unit of time!

Actually, it doesn't even seem fair to toddlers. We have experiments proving toddlers hate equality of outcome.

It's only fair to statisticians, bureaucrats and academics

Who more or less control everything these days.

But, basic arithmetic is not the strong suite of so-called egalitarians.

Oh, and HR types and Union faithful.

Wait, so even toddlers don't like it?

Nope. They believe in something usually called "fairness" in the literature.

What are we doing to so-called adults to miswire their brains that badly then?

Which is closer to equal rewards for equal precieved effort.

Which is what most adults want too.

offer them "free money"

Yes, that I can have some sympathy for.

Equality of outcome is very convenient for people who do statistics (it's relatively easy to test) and bureaucrats (you get paid on the plan)

I think equal rewards for equal perceived effort is evil

I think there are also very strange misperceptions of where prices come from.

It's also convenienent for people who don't really want to work or otherwise obsess over equality.

Yes PERCEIVED effort, that would be a bad thing.

But not as bad as equality of outcome.

Your perception might be off, but at least you are TRYING to do the right thing.

The vast majority of people don't have even a cursory understanding of economics.

CA and NYC are looking at rent control again, for example.

With equality of outcome, you are not even TRYING to do the right thing.

Equal reward for equal value generation.

So the thing about perceived effort is that people don't even realize it's the perception.

Yes, and that comparative value is measured through prices.

If two things have the same price, it is supposed to mean that, by and large, people would be willing to exchange the two.

And if it is not the case for you, you can exchange the thing of higher price for cash and buy the other item that is priced the same, but which you value less.