Invecchiamento, longevità ineguali e giustizia intergenerazionale
(2020) Lessico di etica pubblica — Vol. 10, n° 2, p. 77-94 (2020)
Files
5-Gosseries.pdf
Open Access - Adobe PDF
- 465.17 KB
Details
- Authors
- Abstract
- In this paper, we explore whether and why a contribution rate in a pension regime could be considered unjustly high. This offers one of the angles through which we can look at the issues of intergenerational justice raised by population ageing. We follow three steps. We assume first a population with a uniformly high longevity. We then introduce inequalities in longevity within each generation. Finally, we consider a world in which the longevity of more recent generations is higher than the one of their parents. In the absence of heterogeneity in longevities, it is not easy to formulate significant objections to a contribution rate that would be seen as too burdensome for the active population. This has to do with the need to take seriously the intuition – both frequent and plausible – of distributive obligations having to be assessed over complete lives. However, as soon as we introduce heterogeneity on longevities, a concern for fairness between short-lived and long-lived people becomes central. We also show that, surprisingly, population aging mitigates rather than intensifies this problem of justice.
- Affiliations
Citations
Gosseries, A. (2020). Invecchiamento, longevità ineguali e giustizia intergenerazionale. Lessico di etica pubblica, 10(2), 77-94. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/120361 (Original work published 2020)