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Equality & Envy
The Genius of Thomas Sowell
The Challenge of Defining Windfall Advantages and Disadvantages
The knowledge required to sort this out intellectually, much less rectify it politically, is staggering and superhuman. The challenge of determining the net balance of numerous windfall advantages and disadvantages for one individual at one given time is sufficiently daunting. To attempt the same for whole broad brush categories of people in a complex and changing society suggests hubris. Add to this the changing circumstances of each individual over a lifetime, with relative advantages and disadvantages changing with the passing years.
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