Why “Luck” Doesn’t Explain Wealth and Success in the Marketplace
Egalitarians assume people would be equal but for oppression or the random hand of luck, and that where injustice can't be shown, luck alone justifies equalizing by force. Joshua Mawhorter turns the presupposition around. Drawing on Rothbard's Egalitarianism: A Revolt Against Nature and Sowell's Discrimination and Disparities, he argues that inequality is the normal condition of a world of scarcity, change, time, and choice; that it is precisely what makes exchange possible; and that the only equality worth defending is equality of liberty under the rule of law.
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