@fribbledom@mastodon.social That combination of an original position and a veil of ignorance in order to justify a hypothetical social contract stems from John #Rawls. The concept is known as Justice as Fairness and was elaborated in A Theory of Justice (1971).

According to it, inequality can be justified as long as it benefits the least well off in a society.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice

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