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Kantian Fairness Tendency: The World Isn't Fair - Farnam Street

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Kantian Fairness Tendency is a powerful mental model that shows us why the pursuit of perfect fairness to all causes a lot of terrible problems.

Mental Models | Reading Time: 6 minutes Kantian Fairness Tendency: The World Isn’t Fair The Kantian Fairness Tendency refers to the pursuit of perfect fairness which causes a lot of terrible problems. Stop expecting the world to be fair and adjust your behavior accordingly. To learn about this mental model we turn to Charlie Munger , who mentioned it twice. First in this UCCB talk entitled Academic Economics — Strengths and Weaknesses, after Considering Interdisciplinary Needs where he said: It is not always recognized that, to function best, morality should sometimes appear unfair, like

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