The Robbed Man

So I had planned on showing why people balk at this today, but instead I think I'll discuss further the idea of people choosing elitism every day without knowing it. Think of any parent. They give up money, time, and practically everything else in their life in order to make their child(ren) happy. At least, a good parent does.

Some might argue that, in reality, this does not actually lower the parent's wellbeing at all, and so I wanted to show an example where it clearly lowers someone's wellbeing for a gain in someone else's. Take a man who is rather well off, has a rather high wellbeing, etc. One day, another man comes to his house, holds him at gunpoint, and takes all of his money, credit cards, etc. Unbeknownst to the first man (the man who is being robbed), all of this money is going to be going to the man with the highest wellbeing in the world in order to increase his peak value of wellbeing (and thus for an elitist, a better world is being made). The robbed man has no inkling on this; as far as he knows, he was simply robbed. In my mind, it's hard to find a way for this to be an increase in the robbed man's wellbeing, even considering the wide variation in belief of what wellbeing actually is.

This is a very strong elitism here, proponing that whoever has the highest wellbeing go around and rob everyone else in order to increase the highest peak wellbeing. Hopefully over the next few weeks in the continuation of my discussion of my theory I won't be forced to this strong elitist view, but we'll see.