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Equal Opportunity Assumes a Natural Aristocracy

The popular philosophical formulation of equality of opportunity—giving people of equal genetic potential equal chances at positions—is flawed because it assumes we should accept a natural aristocracy reproducing itself genetically through time, and because we have no good way to measure inner merit or innate potential.

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Speaker

Elizabeth Anderson

Evidence Quote

we shouldn't at all be confident that we have s to idea whatsoever how to measure inner merit or inner potential or inner merits or something like that. I don't think we can, and education and society should be seen as the place where people develop capabilities

Source

139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and IdeologySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:50 AM

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