ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the idea of equal opportunity for welfare is the best interpretation of the ideal of distributive equality. The norm of equality of resources stipulates that to achieve equality the agency ought to give everybody a share of goods that is exactly identical to everyone else's and that exhausts all available resources to be distributed. According to equality of welfare, goods are distributed equally among a group of persons to the degree that the distribution brings it about that each person enjoys the same welfare. Equal opportunity for welfare obtains when all persons face effectively equivalent arrays of options. On plausible empirical assumptions, equal opportunity for welfare often finds tastes compensable, including the talented person's taste for the personal liberty to command her own labor power. Being born with high talent cannot then be a curse under equal opportunity for welfare.
