No, billionaires. Rawls’ Difference Principle says that society should make the WORST OFF as well off as possible. I know it’s not an easy read but if you put the effort in most people get it eventually.
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No one’s a billionaire in a vacuum. Too often they control policy by paying for judges and politicians to hold them above and beyond the law. This effects national debt, quality of environment, going to war, trust in institutions, cost of living, etc. Big money is more than money: it’s big power.
Is it not ok 4 them to make another billion provided I get my delivery an hour earlier? Or food a little warmer? Or car a little smarter? How small can the improvement b 4 their uplift 2b fine...and does it matter if they get their money 2day + I get my micro-dose of well-being in the 'long term'? 😂
It’s interesting that the British Labour Party post WW2 were already saying that inequalities are ok so long as they make everyone better off. Rawls’s innovation, as I understand it, was to say that they have to make the worst off as well off as possible.
Yes indeed, though by time of New Labour we find Mandelson is 'intensely relaxed' about people getting 'filthy rich', which itself was already a move past the talk of 'fat cats' in big companies (esp. recently privatised ones) from a few years before. Of course, his need 4 a 'home loan' didn't help.
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