Robert Nozick's Distributive Justice

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We all have heard and even said, “Life’s just so unfair”. Worker bees are constantly buzzing around doing jobs that are very important, yet they don’t seem to get want they think they deserve out of life. On, the opposite spectrum with have “starts”, such as singers, athletes, and actors, who people feel don’t do anything to become rich. A philosopher named Robert Nozick, gives us a look into the theory of Distributive Justice, that can help people see how sometimes life seems unfair, but it really is not as unfair as all would think. Robert Nozick gives an example of Distributive Justice in his writing, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. The example consists of a basketball player named Chamberlain, who gets twentyfive cents for every ticket sold, …show more content…

According to an online article, Distributive Justice, written by Michelle Maiese, distributive justice tries focusing on evenly distributing the community resources. Maiese goes on in her article saying that, to have an equal amount of goods to go to everyone, how to you know what the fair amount is. There are programs put into place that help determine the amount of goods each family can get. An example that relates to myself and may others, are programs such as T.A.P and FASFA. Are they fair when handing out aid to students? I sometimes question it. I know people who are living with their parents, who have jobs that are well off. Those students I know have gotten way more “Free” money (grants, TAP) than I have. I personally, don’t live with my parents, work barely twenty six hours a week to go to school, and living with my husband who makes ok money, but we are far from rich. Yet, I can get approved for loans, but I get crap in “free” money. I also have worked my butt off for school, with A’s for almost every class, while the person who plays on his phone all day, and barley passes gets a lot more “Free” money than I do. Is this fair distribution? I think not, the system that we have place for check and balances are a part of the reason we have poor people. Programs such as WIC (women, Infants and Children), they try to help those who haven’t been given fair distribution , however they too have standards that you must fall under to get any sort of help. For these reason, I believe that’s what can cause people to be poor. They either make just a few hundred dollar more than the cut off amount, so they can’t get the help they need, which then leads to them struggling. Also maybe they know that if they don’t work they could get help from all these different types of programs, so they stay job less, because that works out better for them than keeping a

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