"If suddenly everybody in the world were miraculously given the same access to education, the same income, the same relative strengths and weaknesses as everybody else--BUT--kept the same personality they have now, in 10 years time DO YOU THINK society would be more or less equal than it is now?"
I don't agree with your poker player. Sure It will still be loosers and winners... But more winners and less loosers than now...
And it's important to take in consideration how the nowadays "winners" win... A lot cheats...and are proud of it!
Then yes it will be winners and loosers... But i bet, If cheating is not allowed, it won't be the same as today..The world is not a poker game...
I think that if everybody had the same background at the beginning, after it's about personal responsability, no more about the chance to live in a place where you can have access to everything... Because most of the winners today depends on the LUCK to be born in the great places!
I prefer the person who are loosers become loosers because they don't make the effort than they born loosers because they born in a place where it's nothing...
I don't mind the world to be more equal, I want the world, at least to be more fair!