Equality of resources and status, or equality of opportunity? Both, for two main groups of reason. The first one is that when the available positions in socie

Equality of resources and status, or equality of opportunity? Both, for two main groups of reason. The first one is that when the available positions in society are highly unequal, then equality of opportunity may simply not be enough for a fair outcome, as who ends up in the comfortable and high-status position ends up largely being down to mere luck. The second one is that (at least as long as families and inheritance are a thing) the two are linked anyway. Inequality of resources and status is the leading cause of inequality of opportunity, after all. You basically have to either go Brave New World or increase equality of resources in generation N in order to make serious progress towards equality of opportunity in generation N+1. And we agree that a lot of it is about a matter of degree -- I've said as much in my original post, after all :)