"If you made 110 points on my test then you can afford to give some to the person who made 72"

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16. It's A Flawed Analogy

It implies that everyone in the world earns money commensurate with how hard they work, and that's just not the case.

A better analogy is this one: Would this 10th grade math teacher ask the same questions of 1st graders that he asks of 10th graders? Why not? And if he did, wouldn't it be more fair to grade the 1st graders on a CURVE? See, it's not the 1st graders' FAULT that they don't know as much about math as a 10th grader; their circumstances have made it that way. So why would you ask a 1st grader to answer math questions designed for a 10th grader without one hell of a curve? It's simply not fair.

And when this issue comes up, the best analogy I can come up with is the following (and I LOVE to use this one). Imagine you're moving your family into a new house. The moving van shows up, and it's packed with everything from the old house. There are boxes of all sizes, shapes, and weights, huge pieces of furniture, and tiny little knick-knacks. One by one, every member of the family comes to the back of the moving van to take something into the house. You've got a big, strapping, muscular dad, all the way down to little kids, and even a feeble, wizened Grandma type, who needs a walker to get around, but still wants to do her part.

The question is this: do you ask Grandma to lug the couch into the house, or do you hand her the smallest, lightest box you can find and give the couch to Dad? Understand before you answer that if you DON'T give the couch to Grandma, you're a Socialist. Why should the biggest, strongest, fittest member of the family be PUNISHED by having to lift the heaviest stuff? All you're doing is providing incentive for people to be feeble and weak.