That is actually a good point, I was focused too much on material goods and not thinking of service jobs.
Indeed, even if you take the real form of redistribution, which is closer to evening out social status than redistributing any form of real wealth. It would probably incentivize people to go into arguably useful service jobs more. (e.g. there are probably a lot of people which would be good medical researchers that become traders or “tech entrepreneurs” because in our current world it yields much more social status, even if the difference in actual material goods is not so great, wealth itself allows for signaling high status).
For some reason, despite reading socialist philosophers/activists which make these arguments… I’m just unable to stick them anywhere in my brain in such a way that I can remember them next time I even think about trying to argue a strong-man representation of redistribution.
That is actually a good point, I was focused too much on material goods and not thinking of service jobs.
Indeed, even if you take the real form of redistribution, which is closer to evening out social status than redistributing any form of real wealth. It would probably incentivize people to go into arguably useful service jobs more. (e.g. there are probably a lot of people which would be good medical researchers that become traders or “tech entrepreneurs” because in our current world it yields much more social status, even if the difference in actual material goods is not so great, wealth itself allows for signaling high status).
For some reason, despite reading socialist philosophers/activists which make these arguments… I’m just unable to stick them anywhere in my brain in such a way that I can remember them next time I even think about trying to argue a strong-man representation of redistribution.
Thanks for pointing this out.