From our (MP) text, summarize the two arguments against economic equality given. (Hint: These two arguments are on pp. 264-265.) One of the two arguments against economic equality is monotony of humans if all were provided with the same opportunities and standards of life. On page 264 of MP, Barcalow says that opponents of economic equality think that if economic equality was implemented and integrated into society then “everyone will act in the same way, dress identically, drive the same car, live in identical houses, and think the same thoughts.” This argument claims that lack of financial diversity leads to lack of diversity in individuality. Another argument against economic equality concerns the labour and effort necessary for achieving such a thing in a society. This arguments says that grave recompense is required for economic redistribution and uplifting those who have so little. On page 265 of MP, Barcalow says that people who argue as such agree with Robert Nozick in saying that those who are being “taxed in order to reduce economic inequality… consider such taxation a form of theft.” Nozick himself maintains, as Barcalow writes on page 265 of MP, that “taxation of earnings from labor is on par with forced labour.”
Then indicate how an "Egalitarian" might reply to these arguments.
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For the argument that economic equality leads to monotony and uniformity is an absurd notion because not one human is like any other. We are unique because we are different peoples. If two people are similar in wealth and status and comfort, it is not necessarily true that both of them are the same people because of it. Egalitarians argue that there is more to what makes a person than just their wealth, their dress code, their house or their car. The human mind is inherently complex; and to claim that anyone person can think exactly the same as another is an absurd