What it comes down to is that luck cannot be incentivised - a dice will always roll a 2, 1/6th of the time.
But good behaviour can be incentivised, e.g. people choosing their partners well and providing stable environments for their children.
We should incentivise good behaviour whilst also ensuring that luck doesn't result in unassailable leads e.g. a lottery win probably should not result in a 1000 year dynasty but a lottery win combined with intelligent estate planning, good mate selection, diversification etc probably should.
> if you were going to be born to someone random, where and when would you want to be born
I think that this is like asking, if 40 year old you were completely randomly spawned, whose life would you like to continue from. You can't. The lineage from your parents to you is the same as the lineage from you to you. It's a nonsense line of inquiry.
What it comes down to is that luck cannot be incentivised - a dice will always roll a 2, 1/6th of the time.
But good behaviour can be incentivised, e.g. people choosing their partners well and providing stable environments for their children.
We should incentivise good behaviour whilst also ensuring that luck doesn't result in unassailable leads e.g. a lottery win probably should not result in a 1000 year dynasty but a lottery win combined with intelligent estate planning, good mate selection, diversification etc probably should.
> if you were going to be born to someone random, where and when would you want to be born
I think that this is like asking, if 40 year old you were completely randomly spawned, whose life would you like to continue from. You can't. The lineage from your parents to you is the same as the lineage from you to you. It's a nonsense line of inquiry.