"Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they are to be to the greatest benefit to the least- advantaged members of society."
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John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993), p. 6
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