Why Not Socialism?

by G.A. Cohen

It is commonly true on camping trips, and, for that matter, in many other nonmassive contexts, that people cooperate within a common concern that, so far as is possible, everybody has a roughly similar opportunity to flourish, and also to relax, on condition that she contributes, appropriately to her capacity, to the flourishing and relaxing of others.

The market, one might say, is a casino from which it is difficult to escape, and the inequalities that it produces are tainted with injustice for that reason.