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To: callisto

The Nobel Laureate Ken Arrow made the same argument 30 years ago.

Before you were born, if you knew there was a 10% of being wealthy or a 90% chance of being poor, would you rely on probabilities? Or choose all wealth divided equally?

Bogus argument, but there you have it.


7 posted on 01/24/2011 7:26:39 PM PST by whitedog57
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To: whitedog57

Kind of an amped up version of John Rawls’s theory of justice.


30 posted on 01/24/2011 9:09:28 PM PST by Yardstick
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