Quote Originally Posted by Rhianu View Post
How do we decide what constitutes a "fair" distribution? How is such a thing determined or measured, and by whom?
For fair distribution, and easy example comes up of my home country's healthcare (England).

Everyone pays a little national insurance each month (comes off wages automatically).
Everyone gets the same healthcare.

The govt. decides how it's distributed, there's guildlines in place to help those who are less able to help themselves. While people may not get everything exactly the same (heeey communism), the idea is that if you're better off you can chip in and help those less fortunate, even have your own backside covered too in the process.

If you lost your job for example and could no longer pay national insurance, you'd get a living allowance, your rent paid for you plus a fortnightly stipend to help cover living expenses PLUS medications you may need 100% free.

When you found a new job, those stipends would be taken away but you'd still get free healthcare and your medications would cost a flat rate, when I left the country it was about 7GBP per item on the prescription (I can't make the pound sterling sign on my keyboard D:! lol).

I would like to say that even America has some strong socialist parts, such as Medicare/aid, unemployment and retirement stipend checks (I think the retirement one is called social security?). Again, it's the govt. that decides how these are distributed. It may be that you (general term) may be too well off to benefit from these at this time, but they are there incase you ever needed to fall back on them.

As for the last question, I can't think of a good example right now - Got a really foggy head and a stack of paperwork to mow through. I'll have a think on it