reparations & exploitation

[Justin Schwartz]

Sure, but how big the incentives should be is an empirical question in part. 
Rawls suggests that inequalities of income are justified if they improve the 
well being of the least well off. Would you consider it a  reason to licence 
greater differentials if experience showed that allowing, say, 100% 
differentials made a significant positive difference to those on the bottom? 
--jks


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>>>Carl
>>
>>But don't we have to consider consequences? Suppose we don't have enough
>>doctors? Enough lawyers? Enough teachers? Suppose we want more teachers in
>>the cities or doctors in rural areas?
>>
>>--jks
>
>Whatever incentives are applied should be used sparingly.  I see no obvious
>reason why any individual should ever be able to claim, say, more than 25%
>more than what any other individual earns.
>
>Carl
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