Die vermaledijde ongelijkheid

Personal responsibility used to be something for which there was room in the thinking of christian-democrats, social-democrats, liberals and conservatives, even though they naturally placed different emphases. So what about that room today? Today there is a great reluctance to suggest personal responsibility in the case of unequal outcomes. No, we should not overreact and turn victims into perpetrators. And we should not replace the illusion that people can do nothing about their situation with the illusion that they can do everything about it. The injustice is not necessarily in the inequality itself, but in the fact that some people cannot possibly improve their position, even if they try.