1) Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensiive liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others (this principle reflects a traditional liberal commitment to formal equality)
2) Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged; and (B) attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity (this so-called 'difference principle) points towards a significant measure of social inequality
I would agree with Rawls on (1), but not on (2). In my opinion, principle (1) should apply to economic situations as well.
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