Genetics Generalities

n a letter written to German socialists toward the end of his life, Karl Marx warned of the futility of trying to make everyone economically equal. “One worker is married, another not; one has more children than another, and so on and so forth. Thus, with an equal performance of labor. . . one will in fact receive more than another, one will be richer than another, and so on.” Vengeful socialists wanted to root out economic inequality wherever they saw it, yet new sources of inequality kept popping up, as life circumstances varied from person to person despite equal incomes. It is why Marx suggested they focus less on attaining perfect economic equality and more on creating a society that transcended the need to own things altogether. Read Full Article »