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    A low-skilled poor single parent in a society without dec... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A piecemeal analysis of individual opportunities is insufficient for evaluating a person's real freedom.

    A low-skilled poor single parent in a society without decent social provisions may individually have access to both holding a job and caring for their children, yet be unable to do both at the same time.

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    Access(used in ethics and social philosophy to distinguish between what's theoretically available versus what's realistically possible)
    In philosophy, 'access' means having the theoretical ability or opportunity to do something, even if circumstances make it practically impossible to actually do it.
    Social provisions(used in political and social philosophy to discuss what society provides for its citizens)
    Government or community support systems like childcare, healthcare, welfare payments, or public services that help people meet their basic needs.

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    capability approach(Political philosophy and theories of distributive justice)
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    Thus, according to the capability approach, the ends of well-being freedom, justice, and development should be conceptualized in terms of people’s capabilities. Moreover, what is relevant is not only which opportunities are open to me each by themselves, hence in a piecemeal way, but rather which combinations or sets of potential functionings are open to me. For example, suppose I am a low-skilled poor single parent who lives in a society without decent social provisions. Take the following func

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