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And how many angels do fit on the head of a pin anyway?
You’re asking for incredibly detailed objective answers to questions that largely don’t have answers yet at too fine grained a level of detail. Race for instance is difficult to define, but very clearly exists. Class is very different than money, and your average joe can tell a low-class lottery winner from an old-money upper class fellow at a glance. There are many more joints in between.
I get your point about gender divisions. Yes, you can sort of gerrymander groups here, but because power is zero-sum it doesn’t make the 10 people more powerful. It does, on a personal level, incentivize maximizing the number of low-power groups you personally are considered a member of. This is what creates the “oppression Olympics” and is a well-recognized issue by the Progs.
The answer to all of these is roughly “based on who they consider their group, and whether that group considers them a member.” We don’t have to hash any of these out mathematically because we already do so socially quite effectively.
I mean could you actually pass as an Amerindian gay underclass transman? Maybe. Are you going to? Probably not. It’s just not that serious of an issue.
We aren’t organizing members of society in a lab here. It can be worked out heuristically like every other part of society and system of societal ranking.
Again, I’m anti-prog but these just aren’t good points of opposition.
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