Solidarity Solution

Kristi A. Olson asks: What is a fair income distribution? She rejects equal income shares: equal pay undercompensates workers in dangerous and onerous jobs. The envy test, which takes both income and work into account, fares better. Yet, a distribution in which no one prefers someone else''s circumstances to her own-as the envy test requires-is unlikely to exist, and even when it does exist, the n...