The beauty of inequality

Standing on the eve of a new decade (Happy 2020!) it is sobering to observe that we are so preoccupied with debating the best way to achieve equal outcomes for all people, that few question the ‘beauty and goodness’ of equality as a policy goal.

​It is rare indeed [in the United States] to find anyone, especially any intellectual, challenging the beauty and goodness of the egalitarian ideal…the goal of equality has for too long been treated uncritically and axiomatically as the ethical ideal.
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​- Murray Rothbard, Egalitarianism as a revolt against nature.

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