Paradoxes of Egalitarianism: Practice, Moral Analysis, and Policy Prescriptions

Social Philosophy and Policy 39 (2):59-72 (2022)
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This essay seeks to answer the question of how the behavior of wealthy advocates of some version of socialism can be reconciled with their advocacy of those ideas. The answer is that the conception of egalitarianism under which they choose to live is one that redistributes income, not wealth, while the egalitarianism that they advocate for others is that in which all wealth is the property of one person who decides how much will be distributed to others.

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