Pphilippe van Parijs says, in The Cambridge Companion to John Rawls, that:
The core of the principle [so called 'difference principle'] is a simple and appealing idea: that social and economic inequalities should be evaluated in terms of how well off they leave the worst off. (...) For it avoids, at the same time, the absurdity of equality at any price and the outrageousness of maximising the aggregate no matter how distributed.
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