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    It is not the case that Compensation-based welfare criteria are biased in favor of the wealthy

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    • 1.Willingness to pay is generally higher among the rich
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    • 2.Higher willingness to pay means the rich can more easily satisfy the compensation threshold in Kaldor's criterion
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    • 3.When the rich do not actually pay the compensation, they obtain the policy benefit without bearing its redistributive cost
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    • 1.Kaldor-Hicks efficiency treats hypothetical compensation as equivalent to actual redistribution, privileging aggregate welfare gains over distributive outcomes.
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    • 2.Sen's capability approach demonstrates that marginal utility of income is higher for the poor, so equal nominal gains mask unequal welfare improvements.
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    • 3.A criterion that systematically discounts the welfare of those with lower purchasing power encodes existing wealth inequality into its foundational structure.
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    • 1.Rawls's difference principle requires that inequalities benefit the least advantaged, a constraint compensation criteria structurally cannot satisfy when transfers remain hypothetical.
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    • 2.When willingness-to-pay proxies social value, policies that redistribute wealth downward are systematically undervalued relative to policies concentrating gains among the already wealthy.
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