The Theory Of Resource Equality

Rawls put forward the principle of fundamental freedom,the principle of fair opportunity and the principle of difference,but his theory ignores the disabled and the responsibility.The significance of resource equality theory is to make up for the problems of Rawls Theory.The theory of resource equality is based on the principle of equal importance and specific responsibility.The two principles require that people’s lives should be determined by choice and ambition,not talent and environment.Dworkin criticized that the theory of welfare equality could not achieve equality.In order to achieve resource equality,we should auction resources first,and make everyone have the same amount of impersonal resources according to the standard of jealousy test.Because the personality resources between people are also unequal,Dworkin analyzes the inequality caused by disability,talent and family,and proposes to realize equality through the virtual insurance market and compensate people with insufficient personality resources through compulsory taxation.For the theory of resource equality,Cohen believes that the theory of resource equality does not consider that some hobbies and aspirations cannot be chosen by people.Amartya Sen believes that the resource equality theory does not consider the interpersonal differences in resource conversion rate.Elizabeth Anderson believes that the theory of resource equality abandons the victims of bad choice luck,and has condescending pity for the victims of bad original luck.Democratic equality is a more desirable theory.The contribution of resource equality theory lies in paying attention to the value of responsibility for equality and insurance for equality,reducing the use of the curtain of ignorance and putting forward the principle of ethical individualism.The value of resource equality theory to China’s departmental law requires respect for those who choose not to have children in the legal system of maternity insurance and reducing the cost of employing women in enterprises in the legal system of employment equality.