PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Original Position, Social Contract
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You can pay someone a lot more than the national average, if there was a fair equal opportunity . If no one was disadvantaged by their race or sex or background. Such inequality is whether or not the least well off people benefit from that inequality of society"s resources. He denies that people who fill the positions are thereby entitled to a greater share. The less well off have no veto over these inequalities and no right to expect to benefit from them. Seen in our society as ok because it is based on people"s choices rather than circumstances. Success or failure will result on that person"s choices. People disagree what is needed to insure equality. Central idea: it is fair for individuals to have unequal shares of social goods id those products of the individual"s actions and choices. Social inequalities are undeserved and one"s fate should not be made worse. But it also applies to inequality of natural talents.
