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Re:Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth ... by rayiner on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:55AM (#15653636)
I’m not sure the second is compatible with liberty either, unless you water it down to mean nothing. Do you stop parents from passing on good genes, education, values, and money? If not you’ve got a very impoverished version of equality of opportunity. If so you’re impinging on some very fundamental freedoms.
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Re:Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth ... by ssambros on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:39PM (#15655497)
It's equality of opportunity, not equality of ability.
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Re:Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth ... by conanbatt on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:54PM (#15658364)
Equality of opportunity is one of the hardest things to define. Milton talks about the opportunity to pursue your talents. But your talent could be really expensive, so what does that actually mean? The son of a wealthy man might have the funds to become a rocket engineer, wasn't that an unequal opportunity to develop talents?

And is there a point to prevent that rocket engineer from existing?

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