“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“Yet it seems extraordinary that the justice of increasing the expectations of the better placed by a billion dollars, say, should turn on whether the prospects of the least favored increase or decrease by a penny.”
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John Rawls
,
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A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 26, pg. 157
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