Nowadays money allows people to buy more and more new things - political influence, better medical care, the possibility of studying in elite schools - the stratification of society in terms of income and wealth is becoming more and more noticeable. If the only advantage of wealth would be the availability of money and the possibility of buying what people want, such as expensive sports cars, income inequality would not be too important. The more things become possible to buy for the money, the more important is the availability of wealth, in fact, as its absence. In a society where everything is sold, the life of people becomes much more complicated. There are two reasons: the first one is the violation of equality and the second one is moral decay. Is there anything bad in fact that people are moving towards a society that allows everything to go “on sale”? Sandel believes that there are negative sides to this. I would like to analyze several important issues discussed in studies of two famous people: the Nobel Laureate in Economics Milton Friedman and a philosopher, a political scientist, and professor of government at Harvard University, Michael Sandel.
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