Created Equal Milton Friedman Summary

In the article “Created Equal,” Milton Friedman argues that other people have advantages over others and that “life is not fair” but he also explains how we also benefitted from the unfairness we disapprove of. He goes in greater detail how an elite fighter such as Muhammad Ali makes millions of dollars every time he fights and steps into a ring, but people that work “normal” jobs don’t get the same amount of pay. Muhammad Ali trained and practiced his entire life to get to the status he was in, but not everyone can devote or is willing to devote their entire life and time into fighting. Friedman also considered how luck and chance plays a role and the way we make decisions, he said that people with an equal amount of chips can be big winners or big losers depending on the cards that they get by chance and how they decide to play the cards they get. Friedman also argues how people the people that make their own choices run bearing the risk and consequences of their decision.

For example, I can be the same age and the same education level as someone in a job search at Walmart but I would have a higher chance of being hired if I did any athletics in school or any extracurricular activities I have done that some may or may not have. Another factor could be that if I have past job experience that would surely be a huge factor of landing a job that not a lot of people possess. Life has never been fair and everyone can relate to this. As mentioned before Friedman said that Muhammad Ali makes millions of dollars every time he fights but it isn’t fair for people that would work normal jobs because of Muhammad Ali’s time devotion and hardwork that he put into fighting that other people did not do, he then was able to make more than an average