fashion the conditions that have produced such inequality. Fourth-stage liberalism thus champions equality of opportunity as a means of making certain that everyone “gets a fair shake.” Equality of opportunity is ostensibly not the same as equality of result, the latter of which smacks of trying to fix the game’s outcome. Yet the “game” of life is repeated in every generation, and if one’s parents have not fared particularly well in their economic transactions, this will affect one’s own ability