“What Do We Deserve?”: write an essay in which you make an argument about this story and how it relates to libertarianism, meritocracy or egalitarianism, and the merits/flaws with that system.Give examples factual or fictional .
“What Do We Deserve?” In “What Do We Deserve?”, Namit Arora considers the problems that emerge when we confuse economic and social outcomes with merit or worth; in other words, when we assume that economic or social outcomes equate to “moral desert” (59). Such misperceptions are an outcome of stories of social mobility that are … Read more