What is Equality?
I often don’t know what people really mean when they talk about “equality”. Let alone “equity”.
People talk about “equality of opportunity” vs “equality of outcome”. I am not even sure what either of these means.
Equality of opportunity is impossible. The accidents of our birth influence the opportunities we will have in life, and the choices we make along the way will influence them further.
Equality of outcome is just as impossible. We are all different. And I don’t mean just individually. Groups are different. Men and women are different. Japanese and French people are different. City people and country people are different. This group-level differences will result in different group-level outcomes.