Meritocratic Spell

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From the very first day of being in this world you are already being pushed into echo chambers and most of our life after it won't be easy to get out of the state of mind like you would a habit. Based on the Different Principle the community prefer to use the veil of ignorance than converse with each other. Compared to Arora saying to lessen or suffering, we will continually choose political equality and the Difference Principle. To conceal our greatest values which we feel we are entitled to have and keep from discussioning so it can stay that way. For instance there have been employees who have fired because they gave their opinions and students who have been suspended just for saying their stance on a topic as well. What society doesn’t …show more content…
In a similar fashion to what Sean Blanda insinuate in his article "The 'Other Side' Is Not Dumb" the possibility of not always being correct about everything because there are individuals who do not live in the same place or watch the same TV shows as you that have valuable opinions, which is blocking people from seeing the bigger …show more content…
Libertarian model is to have everyone starting at the same level by giving people equal income using the free market. The disadvantages to this model is the fact that there can be a biased for instance, financial aid would give a student who may only have one other sibling and only one parent supporting them through college get almost a free ride to University but a student who have five other siblings and two parents support get no aid at all. Meaning how much support can the parents give when they have other children to think about.
The meritocratic model provides the change to get social and economical needs taken care of with free education, cheap healthcare, and employment opportunities. Arora figures this model does not work well because he believes natural talent or dumb luck will give you a head start instead of society starting on the same line. To contrast with Arora there are always individuals who are so are ambitious enough to be from the lowest social class and end up being one of the richest people in the world or to simply

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