Tag: libertarianism
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Is that a fair situation where John and Joan are doing equal work, but Joan is getting paid a lot more than John, when the pay differential is the result of market demand for Joan’s gender?
Libertarianism and Gender Inequality Joan and John work at the same job at the same company with pretty much equal qualifications, equal productivity, and equal pay. As it turns out, in the city where Joan and John work, many companies are trying to diversify their workforce by increasing the number of women employed by their…
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Write an essay in which you make an argument about the this story and how it relates to libertarianism, meritocracy or egalitarianism, and the merits/flaws with that system.
In “What Do We Deserve?”, Namit Arora considers the problems that emerge when we confuse economic and social outcomes with merit or worth; in other words, when we assume that economic or social outcomes equate to “moral desert” (59). Such misperceptions are an outcome of stories of social mobility that are central to American culture,…