Democrats Want Change

[Belsnickel]

(07-19-2017, 05:31 PM)Dill Wrote: It is a good article. What it does is link economic inequality to inequality of opportunity. Just to be clear, the authors are still not arguing for "equality of outcomes" in the sense our Republican friends would have it.

An additional point--the "equality of outcomes" goal imputed to Dems and "far leftists" is less an analytic concept for economic/political analysis than a meme that circulates as "fact" in right wing discourse.  I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard someone explaining how you can't make people's abilities equal--usually by someone who would benefit from the greater economic opportunity he has been led to argue against.

This is all very true. The article is all about how equality of opportunity is tied to economic inequality and how equality of opportunity is going to become more and more unequal if we do not address these economic inequalities. But, there is not an argument being made for equality of outcomes, as you accurately point out. This concept is not something that anything short of a Marx purist is going to advocate for, and those are very hard to come by.