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As justices are selected from the legal and political elite, they may have earningspotential beyond their judicial salary.
One can, for example, have low earningspotential but still be a very talented parent or friend.
A degree is taken as a proxy for earningspotential and social class.
One possibility here, as a means of implicitly tagging high earningspotential for the purposes of higher taxation, is some form of graduate tax.
Secondly, there is an important distinction between ability in a comprehensive sense, and ability as it specifically affects earningspotential.
The result occurs because men with high earningspotential marry women with high earningspotential.
While normalizing income to reflect proportion of earningspotential or relationship to personal wealth may yield stronger statistical results, such information is not consistently available.
A human capital approach places a heavy emphasis on earningspotential and does not value intangible losses, such as the social isolation and psychological stress imposed by the condition.
To control for the significant levels of inequality in earningspotential that remain, we will therefore have to supplement endowment egalitarianism with some form of 'transfer egalitarianism'.
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