Equality is a powerful rallying cry, which is why it has gained so much popularity this election season. While people generally know how they feel about Equality of Outcome, Equality of Opportunity is much less clear. Like so many issues discussed today, Equality of Opportunity has competing definitions that make it difficult to discuss effectively. To understand it better, we explore those definitions and the underlying ideas. To do that, we address the viral “monopoly” metaphor and the “life as a race” metaphor that are most frequently used to describe privilege and to illustrate the need for equality of opportunity. Fundamentally, this conversation is a critique of the idea that life ought to be understood fundamentally as a competitive, zero sum game.|
Music: Beauty Flow by Kevin Macleod
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107: Current News & Pandemic Amnesty?
106: Critical Theory Is Critically Flawed
105: Current News & Marijuana Law Reform
104: Immigration Revisited
103: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and The Era of Fact Checkers
102: Biden, Trump, and the Collapse of our Economic Bubble?
101: Student Loan Forgiveness
100: Climate Change Philosophy
99: Dutch Farmers & The Coming Famine
98: The Inflation Reduction Act
97: The Federal Budget & Social Security
96: January 6th Hearings
95: Austrian Economics Part 3
94: The Supreme Court’s Rulings
93: Rothbard & Austrian Economics
92: Greedflation
91: The Uvalde School Shooting
90: Twitter Exposed & Political Markets
89: Are Things Just Really Bad Right Now?
88: The Overturning of Roe V. Wade
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