Do people get what they deserve generally?

[Belisarius]

Re OP:
Definitely not.

Something that bugs me is the thought of all the potential geniuses--whether literary, scientific, or philosophical--that are languishing in ghettos around the world, too busy scrounging for their daily bread to go to school or enter a trade where it could be put to use. This is why I constantly harp on education, because this represents an enormous human catastrophe, a waste of good minds and good capital, and there seems to be no easy way to rectify it short of revamping the entire global socioeconomic system.


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[qwe]

^ don't you mean definitely not?

 

[ebola?]

Appended:
people get what they deserve insofar as they inhere in a social system that functions to effect justice. Status-quo society (societies?) fail spectacularly at this.