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Rawls contends that faced with this situation, people would build their society around two principles. Most important, everyone should enjoy all liberties compatible with ensuring the same liberties for everyone else. The second guiding principle dictates that social and economic inequalities must satisfy two conditions: they must be attached to positions and offices open to all citizens under conditions of equality of opportunity and, second, they should work to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society...
There are 100 people in an economy. In one situation, 99 people earn $100,000 and I person earns $1. The alternative is that all 100 people in the economy can earn $2. In which society would the Rawlsian person want to live...
...correct answer, according to Ec 10, is that citizens would choose to earn $2 instead of suffering any inequality. What lunacy! I would never choose to live under such constraints...
...laughable. More worrisome is the fact that Ec 10 purports to present Rawls' view without mentioning that it has conveniently omitted important parts of the argument. By using only a choice few of Rawls' basic suppositions, Ec 10 arrives at policy choices that Rawls and most other thinking people would...
...like to give [high school students] a feel for what college is like," says Marks, who is in his second year as a volunteer for the program. "I would tell them what life is like at college...