Hatch assumes that online platforms are ruled by equality of opportunity.
The leading treatise on U.S. administrative law devotes many chapters to such procedural topics as rule making, requirement of opportunity to cross-examine and rebut, adjudication procedure, examiners, bias, evidence, official notice, findings, reasons, and opinions.
Nor are American companies alone in this: other countries' accounting rules too offer plenty of opportunity for manipulation.
'Formal' equality of opportunity rules out formal discrimination on grounds such as a person's race, ethnicity, age or gender.
In broad terms, Rawls insists that fair equality of opportunity rules out improving the condition of the worst off by instituting practices that generate inequalities that fail to satisfy FEO.
Back in the 20th century, most of the advanced capitalist nations decided that it was beneficial if working people could have access to regularized employment -- a job with a predictable paycheck, rules of engagement, and opportunities for advancement.
Some countries have political institutions and cultural practices — honest government, rule of law, opportunities to accumulate money — that reward hard work.
In a similar way he proposes that social and economic inequalities are acceptable only if attached to positions that are open to all under FEO, but allows that inequalities of opportunity ruled out by FEO can yet be acceptable provided they "enhance the opportunities of those with lesser opportunity" (Rawls 1999: 266).
It is a land built from a language with (almost) no rules, so it is a land of opportunity, a truly American utopia.
The protesters may not all think the same things, but many of them were clearly hoping America would live up to its promise as a land of opportunity where the rules are fair and all are welcome.
