[Music] what's your blueprint for a just Society your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in if you're rich you may well be in favor of the freedom to earn and enjoy the fruits of your efforts if you're poor you're likely to be more supportive of a system that redistributes wealth now answer the same question with this twist you won't know what kind of a person you'll be in the society you design what you have to do is construct it from behind a veil of ignorance you might end up black
white in a wheelchair straight Gay born into a wealthy family or living in extreme poverty you might enjoy knitting rock music Opera tily Winks or cage fighting maybe even all of these you just don't know how you'll end up this is the thought experiment at the heart of John rs's book a theory of Justice he argued that from behind the veil we had opt for a much fairer Society than we now have there would be extensive freedom and fair equality of opportunity but there wouldn't be extremes of high pay unless it could be shown that
the poorest in society directly benefited as a result [Music]
