对于这样的不公平是否应当引起重视,这个问题自启蒙运动以来就一直困扰着哲学家们。本专栏在本周不打算给出明确的答案,我们的重点是:当前情况下,似乎只有美国人不关心收入和财富差距越来越大,也许没有你期待的那么强烈。总体上来说,他们更喜欢机遇而不是公平,更喜欢机遇平等而不是结果平等。这种想法带来的问题是美国人一直以来提供公平的机遇。收入分配最低的5%的人中,其孩子出生后几乎有5倍的可能享受与收入最高5%人中的孩子一样的生活。的确,社会科学家已经不再确定在美国无阶级社会中攀登幸福生活的阶梯是否要比据称有等级阻碍的西欧国家更加容易。
What are vote-seeking politicians to make of this? That the American people appear to havekept faith in the hardest of times with the idea of leaving it mainly to markets rather thangovernments to allocate lifes material rewards strikes many Republicans as a marvellous thingthe glorious opposite of what happened in the 1930s, when the economically stricken turnedto government for succour. In the case of the recent collapse, runs the Republican argument,misplaced government interventionsuch as the egalitarian nonsense of extending credit forhome-ownership to those who could not really afford itwas at least as much to blame asthe excesses of the private sector. That, to judge by the eruption of the tea-partymovement, is the verdict of many non-aligned Americans too. So the Grand Old Party isbetting on this anti-government wave restoring it to power in 2012.
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