When you start out young-- We're unequal at birth, of course, because of our parents and the advantages we have, but relatively equal at a young age.

从你小时候开始-,当然，我们生来就是不平等的，因为我们的父母和其他的优势，但是年幼时相对比较平等。

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There is a kind of license that comes from the denial of any restraints on our desires or a kind of relativistic belief that all desires are equal and all should be permitted.

有种许可来自于,拒绝限制我们的欲望,或一种相对的信念,即所有的欲望都是平等且都应被允许,柏拉图对民主的观点。

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It's important--that's one reason why we want policies that encourage equality of incomes-- not necessarily equality, but reasonable equality-- because the people with very low wealth have a very high marginal utility of income and people with very high wealth have very little.

这非常重要,我们需要通过政策,来引导收入公平的一个原因就是这个,不是绝对的平等,是相对的平等,因为那些低收入的人群,对收出的边际效应相当的高,而高收入人群的则小得多

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