Bravo! I have a question to ask you. Does Cohen end up being in favor of equality of outcome in the sense that everyone would be rewarded the same pay rate regardless of the amount of work they did?
Important question. No! He's in favour of a system that creates, as far as possible, 'equal access to advantage' (true equality of opportunity to live a flourishing life). People's outcomes would still be determined on how they choose to work, the difference is that the development of those people's characters (their traits, abilities, temperaments) will have be much more equal than they are today.
It is one of the biggest falsehoods around that Marxist are for equality of outcome. Marxist push for equality of opportunity. Except it's true equality of opportunity not the fake kind you get under capitalism. You get paid according to the work that you put in. This doesn't happen under capitalism, in fact it can't happen under capitalism for workers otherwise the capitalist with have no profit due to the lack of surplus value.
Informative in an easy-to-understand presentation. Thank you.
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Bravo! I have a question to ask you. Does Cohen end up being in favor of equality of outcome in the sense that everyone would be rewarded the same pay rate regardless of the amount of work they did?
Important question. No! He's in favour of a system that creates, as far as possible, 'equal access to advantage' (true equality of opportunity to live a flourishing life). People's outcomes would still be determined on how they choose to work, the difference is that the development of those people's characters (their traits, abilities, temperaments) will have be much more equal than they are today.
It is one of the biggest falsehoods around that Marxist are for equality of outcome. Marxist push for equality of opportunity. Except it's true equality of opportunity not the fake kind you get under capitalism. You get paid according to the work that you put in. This doesn't happen under capitalism, in fact it can't happen under capitalism for workers otherwise the capitalist with have no profit due to the lack of surplus value.
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