Sufficientarianism is one of the several main theories of
distributive justice
Distributive justice concerns the socially just allocation of resources. Often contrasted with just process, which is concerned with the administration of law, distributive justice concentrates on outcomes. This subject has been given considerab ...
. Sufficientarianism is concerned with a view of justice which emphasis the idea that all should have enough.
Frankfurt
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suggests, when looking at economic distribution, that the morally important thing is that all should have enough not that all would have the same.
Roemer suggests that this might be thought of as maximising the numbers of those who have enough (2004, p. 278).
[Axelsen, David V., & Lasse Nielsen. (2015) Sufficiency as freedom from duress, Journal of Political Philosophy, 23.4 : 406–426]
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