The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
In the following autumn, in response to the increasing misery of lower-income households caused by inflation, the UK government declared a uniform 5 percent income tax cut to stimulate economic growth. Perhaps we may start by accepting Rawls's position that "differences of talents are as morally arb...
| Published in: | Utopian Studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 154 - 158 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2023
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| Summary: | In the following autumn, in response to the increasing misery of lower-income households caused by inflation, the UK government declared a uniform 5 percent income tax cut to stimulate economic growth. Perhaps we may start by accepting Rawls's position that "differences of talents are as morally arbitrary as differences of class" because "income inequalities due to natural talents are no more just than inequalities that arise from class differences" (128-29). In I The Tyranny of Merit i , Michael J. Sandel spends six out of seven chapters exemplifying the misery of not-being-a-winner in a meritocratic society. |
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