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    Supports→Compensation-based welfare criteria are biased in favor of the wealthy

    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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    Key Terms

    Compensation criteria(as an alternative approach to the difference principle)
    A framework or set of rules for deciding who should receive money, resources, or benefits to make up for unfair treatment or disadvantages.
    Hypothetical(describing the assassin's willingness before it's actually put into action)
    Something that exists only in theory or imagination, not yet proven or tested in real life.
    Rawls(as the philosopher whose ideas are being referenced)
    John Rawls, a 20th-century philosopher famous for developing theories about justice and fairness in society.
    Transfers(as what compensation criteria might require to help disadvantaged people)
    The movement of money, resources, or benefits from one person or group to another, usually to help those in need.
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    (Contrasted with FEO as regulating consumption activities rather than self-realization)
    The Rawlsian principle demanding maximization of the social primary goods holdings of the worst-off members of society.
    least advantaged(Rawls's technical definition)
    Those with the least share of the primary goods of income and wealth, and powers and positions of office, who are also fully cooperating and active participants in society.

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