Tim Scanlon on What's Wrong with Inequality?

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  Suppose there were only two groups of people in the world.

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  Those in the first group each had money and possessions worth 1000 pounds.

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  Those in the second group each had a million.

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  Now suppose you could reduce the wealth of each member of the second group so that they too had only 1000 pounds.

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  Overall, this might be a bad thing to do, but you would have made the world more equal.

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  So have you, at least in this regard, made the world a bit better?

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  Tim Scanlan from Harvard University has for many years been reflecting on the tricky issues raised by the concept of equality.

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  Tim Scanlan, welcome to philosophy Bites.

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  Thank you very much, Nigel.

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  It's great to be back.

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  The topic we're going to focus on this time is what's wrong with inequality?

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  Now we're focusing on economic inequality.

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  What is wrong with inequality?

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  Well, it's a puzzling question, because objections to inequality are objections to the difference between what some people have and what other people have.

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  And it's easy to understand why some people would like to have more money than they do.

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