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TOWARDS A SOCIAL CONTRACT


	The object of this essay is to suggest that society would
benefit from having a "social contract".  This contract would
regulate the way in which the benefits society has to offer are
divided among groups and individuals.  The purpose of the contract
is to reduce strife by making a long term arrangement that would
be universally recognized and would be rather difficult to change
quickly.  When a person undertook an occupation, he would have
a good understanding of its rewards relative to others and would
measure his talents against the rewards offered by the various
occupations.

	The social contract should take into account the following
matters:

	1. The desire for equality.

	2. The necessity for stability against secession.  No group
should find it to its advantage to leave the society taking its share
of wealth and set up separately.  We shall imagine this to be possible,
for example by emigration elsewhere in the solar system.