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Thanks for this. Yeah, it intuitively makes sense that inequality in our own society leads to issues. I was curious more broadly about how you define inequality in a universal and rigorous way that's not just rooted in envy. Clearly, for example, we care relatively little about the inequality between Canada and e.g. Cameroon, even though…
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Thanks for this. Yeah, it intuitively makes sense that inequality in our own society leads to issues. I was curious more broadly about how you define inequality in a universal and rigorous way that's not just rooted in envy. Clearly, for example, we care relatively little about the inequality between Canada and e.g. Cameroon, even though that's a much more severe inequality than the inequality within Canada. So I was curious if there's any scholars that have looked at this from a more philosophical standpoint rather than focusing on a particular society.