Philosophy PHIL 1320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Economic Mobility

• School: Texas State University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy PHIL 1320
• Professor: Jonathan Surovell

Document Summary

The term redistribution of wealth is taboo in politics. Many seem to think that it has to do with welfare and encourage people to become lazy and not get jobs. Most of the world except that redistribution of wealth is a given. The us has the fourth lowest intergenerational economic mobility. >the prevailing view of equal opportunity is that an inequality is unjust/unfair unless it results from fair competition. >your outcome in life should be determined by your choices, not by your social circumstances, like class, sex, race, etc. >more generally: we should minimize inequalities that are the result of brute luck.