14: Equality of Opportunity

Equality is a powerful rallying cry, which is why it has gained so much popularity this election season. While people generally know how they feel about Equality of Outcome, Equality of Opportunity is much less clear. Like so many issues discussed today, Equality of Opportunity has competing definitions that make it difficult to discuss effectively. To understand it better, we explore those definitions and the underlying ideas. To do that, we address the viral “monopoly” metaphor and the “life as a race” metaphor that are most frequently used to describe privilege and to illustrate the need for equality of opportunity. Fundamentally, this conversation is a critique of the idea that life ought to be understood fundamentally as a competitive, zero sum game.|

Music: Beauty Flow by Kevin Macleod 
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