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sooheon on July 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just P...

Or choices about the socioeconomic status of your parents, or your intelligence, or the country you are born into, etc. There is nothing unjust about inequality, because in a free market universe, everything is a choice and being left holding the shorter straw is due to your choices.

closeparen on July 8, 2018 | [–]

Sure, a variety of factors lead to inequality, some of them unjust. It is those unjust factors, not the inequality itself, that must be eliminated.

golergka on July 8, 2018 | [–]

"Justice" is the ultimate social construct – that everybody constructs to his or her needs.

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