Equality of Outcome Society

An Equality of Outcome Society is a society that aims to have equal outcomes to its society members.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Equality of Opportunity.
  • Equality of Autonomy.
• See: Politics, Income, Wealth, Social Inequality Measure.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_of_outcome Retrieved:2014-5-17.
  • Equality of outcome, equality of condition, or equality of results is a political concept which is central to some political ideologies and is used regularly in political discourse, often in contrast to the term equality of opportunity. It describes a state in which people have approximately the same material wealth or in which the general economic conditions of their lives are similar. Achieving equal results generally entails reducing or eliminating material inequalities between individuals or households in a society, and usually involves a transfer of income or wealth from wealthier to poorer individuals, or adopting other measures to promote equality of condition. A related way of defining equality of outcome is to think of it as "equality in the central and valuable things in life." One account in the Journal of Political Philosophy suggested that the term meant "equalising where people end up rather than where or how they begin" but described this sense of the term as "simplistic" since it failed to identify what was supposed to be made equal. There is widespread agreement that the term is controversial.

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