El Chisme

Gonna repost something I said the other day:

Liberalism stratifies people into tiers of value. At the top are billionaires, below that smaller capitalists, below that wealthy professional workers, below that imperial core workers, &c. &c. until at the very bottom are working class in the imperial periphery. If harm toward a person in a lower tier has badness value 1, then harm toward a person a tier above them has badness value n, where n is an arbitrary number so large that no amount of violence against those in the lower tiers could result in a number comparable to it; comparisons are only possible within a given stratum because the differences in value between tiers are unbridgeably vast. For examples of this, see: how they talk about Alexei vs. how they talk about (or rather don't talk about) peasant children killed in the Russian Civil War, how much attention they give to imperial soldiers killed in wars vs. the people they're bombing, the Soviet famine of 1930–1933 vs. the Bengal famine.

(For anyone here who does programming, the analogy I'm probably poorly trying to make is to Big O notation)

Tomorrow_Farewell pointed out as a response to the linked comment that small-o notation actually works better for this analogy, which I guess is the difference between my (an engineer's) understanding of a mathematical concept and a mathematician's understanding of the same concept.