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r14ctoday at 2:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

Could you expand on that? My concept of fairness is pretty congruent with equity.


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mylifeandtimestoday at 5:45 PM

two ways to take it:

equity as written. Ownership. Thus fairness means all have a share in responsibility for success and rewards for that success. Yeah, I agree. Note that I include responsibility as the core part of ownership. I think our society could have more of that.

equality (assumes you made a typo). Do you mean equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? These require different things to remedy.

WalterBrighttoday at 2:42 AM

Equity means equal results.

If you work harder than I, for the same pay, that is equitable but it isn't fair.

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