reparations & exploitation

[Carl Remick]

>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

Probably not.  In any event, why not give overachievers high-visibility 
praise, etc., instead of financial rewards?

Carl
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