To be sure, modern welfare states have far from abolished social inequality, with disparities in access to material and human resources continuing to generate highly unequal lives among their citizens. But the welfare state’s aim has never been radical redistribution of wealth.
平心而论，现代福利国家距离消灭社会不平等性还相去甚远，获得物质和人力资源能力的差异仍然在这些国家的国民之间造就着极为不平等的生活。但福利国家的目标从来不是彻底的财富再分配。