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I'll take Rawls' veil of ignorance and say yes, I'd rather be born into unequal world A than equal world B if everyone in world A has strictly more pie than in
by nshepperd 11y ago
I'll take Rawls' veil of ignorance and say yes, I'd rather be born into unequal world A than equal world B if everyone in world A has strictly more pie than in world B.
Destroying parts of the pie clearly isn't Pareto optimal, either.
- weeksie 11y agoMost people would, depending on the amount of inequality and how bad off the least fortunate are. There's been pretty good research on that. Rawls' thought experiment is meant to reveal what people in a society would consider just, not to be prescriptive. Rawls had ideas as to what people would choose and but he was wrong about how much equality they would prefer.