ABSTRACT
A deliberate policy of full employment is one of the great advances which developed societies have made since the crisis of the great depression. Yet once again the success is thwarted by our doing the right thing in the wrong way, liberating the subject of old to become a citizen, only to lock the citizen into the case of his own perverted rights. The new liberty will be lost as soon as it is won if such access is reduced to irrelevant choices between more of the same things, between rugby and soccer, or classics and mathematics. The new liberty means that equality is there for people to be different, and not for the differences of people to be levelled and abolished. The new bondage brought about by a notion of justice as equality is no accident, but is linked to the type of society in which we are living.
