Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Broadly yes; I think most people looking at welfare or other policies intended to ...

Broadly yes; I think most people looking at welfare or other policies intended to deal with the results of bad luck would agree that equality of opportunity is what is required.... the difficulty is assessing the impediments to such opportunities & what ameliorative action(s) might be. This is why in the end a redistributive tax system works quite well as it acts at a level of generality that doesn't require such detailed judgments...