 Following this line of reasoning further (and it certainly has appeared to many that we have no principled reason to stop here) seems to lead to more radical conclusions than those who agreed with formal equality of opportunity would have imagined. A society with a more substantial equality of opportunity principle in place will still not be providing equality of opportunity for all. People are born into more or less nurturing families and social circumstances. People are born into families and neighborhoods which are more or less encouraging of education and the development of economically advantageous talents. There are a whole range of social influences which have fundamental and unequal effects on children’s economic prospects and for which they are in no way  responsible—the influences children are exposed to are a matter of their luck in the ‘social lottery’. Moreover, the luck of the natural lottery is not just restricted to such characteristics as gender and race. Children are more or less fortunate in the distribution of natural talents as well. 