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Originally Posted by Stanford citing Rawls
The second principle provides fair equality of educational and employment opportunities enabling all to fairly compete for powers and positions of office; and it secures for all a guaranteed minimum of the all-purpose means (including income and wealth) that individuals need to pursue their interests and to maintain their self-respect as free and equal persons
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It is this flaw that is a de-incentivizer when carried into action, which is why it's properly categorized as philosophy rather than practical economics. No tyrant, having already secured their fortune, who can grant the subjectively-defined means for an individual recipient to "maintain their self-respect" (at the expense of other more industrious people) is someone who can be trusted to do other than the minimum it takes to prevent rebellion & upsetting their version of the
status quo. The only exceptions to this in history are with those where the overseer(s) of the policy were also participating and were faced with starvation.
Just my $.02, which is almost a .22 LR round these days.
