> No one is owed anything except for equality of opportunity. Are we wishing for equality of outcome? On its face, I can't understand why that would ever make s

> No one is owed anything except for equality of opportunity. Are we wishing for equality of outcome? On its face, I can't understand why that would ever make sense. I hear this frequently, but it's sorta missing the point. Nearly all people want equality of opportunity, and not outcome. What people are concerned about is: 1) The bad outcomes don't need to be Kafkaesque or medieval (e.g. "too poor to be sick" doesn't need to be a thing). 2) If bad outcomes are becoming more and more frequent (as we see with e.g. wealth inequality becoming more pronounced), it's a smell that something systemically bad is happening. It's probably a sign that equality of opportunity is being reduced over time. > Do I think we're fully at equality of opportunity yet? No. But I feel that's what we should be working on. That's what we should be protecting. As I noted above, if outcomes are becoming more and more polarized over time, it's a likely sign that equality of opportunity is ceasing to exist. Outcomes are the dependent variable we kinda have to use for measuring equality of opportunity, because we don't really have anything else to measure.