When background conditions (labor markets, inherited wealth, systemic discrimination) are the dominant causal factors, individual causal contribution is insufficient to ground remedial responsibility.

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Causal factors(as used in philosophy of causation): Things that actually cause or bring about an outcome, rather than just being correlated with it.
Dominant causal factors(as used in philosophy of responsibility): The main causes that are most responsible for something happening, rather than minor or secondary causes.
Ground (as a verb)(as used in epistemology): To serve as the foundation or justification for a belief—to be the reason why you should accept something as true.
Individual causal contribution(as used in ethics): The specific role or responsibility that one person's own choices and actions played in bringing about a result.
Remedial responsibility(as used in ethics): The obligation someone has to fix or repair harm they've caused, rather than just being blamed for it.
Sufficient: # Sufficient Something is sufficient when it is enough to achieve a goal or make something true. For example, having a valid driver's license is sufficient to legally drive a car—you don't need anything else. In everyday language, we use "sufficient" to mean "adequate" or "meeting the minimum requirement needed."
background conditions(Perry's objection to success semantics): Conditions required for an action's success (e.g., gravity, oxygen concentration) about which the agent may have no beliefs at all

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