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    Challenges→Reducing inequality of decision-making power within the economic sphere is intrinsically significant, not merely instrumentally significant.

    Treating equality of economic power as intrinsically valuable conflates the instrumental conditions for autonomy with autonomy itself, a category error Kant's distinction between means and ends warns against.

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    Category error(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A logical mistake where you apply a rule or concept to something it doesn't actually fit, like using a math formula on a poem.
    Distinction between means and ends(Kant's ethical philosophy)
    Kant's famous principle that things used as tools to achieve goals (means) are different from goals that are worth pursuing for their own sake (ends), and we should never treat people merely as tools.
    Economic power(political and economic philosophy)
    The ability to make financial decisions and control resources or money.
    Instrumental conditions(means and ends distinction)
    Things that are useful as tools or means to help you achieve something else, rather than being valuable on their own.
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    (as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    autonomy(Used to ground worker rights to self-governance in the workplace)
    The right to freely determine one's own actions
    intrinsically valuable(Contrasted with instrumental value; used to assess whether knowledge or intellectual activity is the proper locus of value in Ross's ethics.)
    Valuable in and of itself, not merely as a means to some further good.

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