| Actually, equality is not fair, although it is often a proxy for fairness. For example, why shouldn't a vendor sell something for less to a working person, and more to a rich person, through separate negotiation? Taken as a proportion of income, the rich person is still paying a fraction of what the poor person is, even though the dollar amount may be greater. Similarly, a parking fine for me is a lot less to me than it was 20 years ago, and therefore is less of a penalty and disincentive. People go to college, and end up with honors or not, but no one asks if they had to work during the school year, or had tutors for difficult subjects, or were sick for much of one semester, or whatever else might effect performance, they just look at grades. But what the heck, in many cases equality will do as a rough measure........ |
