Original Position

plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/

( Opinions welcomed.)

Just another justification, be it an elegant one, for socialist redistribution. What’s missing and/or deemphasized in Rawls “theory of justice” is that redistribution hurts GDP, and as such a society not following redistributive models will over time lag developmentally behind a society not following the model, eventually the poorest in the latter non-redistributive society will overtake the richest in the socialist society.

Why the lag? Incentives - sorry its our shitty human nature to work only when we get something ourselves - to see a redistributive society that totally failed look at the USSR.

I personally see Rawl’s description of the original position to be like that of Rousseau’s original nature theory of man.

Locke also had somthing of a similar belief.