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> focusing on the worse off person.

I recommend you read John Rawls's seminal work A Theory of Justice.

For him, there are three principles a society should be based on (in lexical order):

Maximum, equal liberties for all > Equality of opportunity > Difference principle

Difference principle: Any inequality has to be to the biggest advantage for the least well-off person



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