ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author mainly discusses inequality of welfare. He assumes that egalitarians should care about natural, and not merely social, inequality. However, even if one only cared about social inequality, most of the same questions and considerations would apply. The author is concerned with inequality from a moral perspective. This is why his question is not "When is there more inequality in one situation than another?" but rather, "When is one situation worse than another with respect to inequality?" The author's notion of inequality allows us to focus on particular individuals, and make judgments about whether or not, and the extent to which, they have a complaint with respect to inequality. Since it seems almost tautological that the less a situation deviates from absolute equality the better it is with respect to inequality, it seems natural and plausible to judge that the Sequence first gets worse, then gets better.
