 A race where the starting line is arbitrarily staggered, where people’s prospects for winning are not largely determined by factors for which they are responsible but rather largely by luck, is not considered a fair race. Similarly, if society is structured so that people’s prospects for gaining more economic goods are not largely determined by factors for which they are responsible but rather largely by luck, then the society is open to the charge of being unfair. This is the challenging conclusion with which Barry, following Rawls, presents us. 