Are We Treating Different People Unequally to Make Them Equal?

Hayek says the classical demand is that the state ought to treat all people equally in spite of the fact that they were very unequal. So, Hayek goes on, you can't deduce from this that because people are unequal, you ought to treat them unequally in order to make them equal. And that's what social justice amounts to. It's a demand that the state should treat people differently in order to place them in the same position.

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