Every child has shouted this at some stage... sometimes many times.
But what is fairness and how can we measure it?
The Fairness Foundation has established five 'fair necessities' (think bare necessities of life...)
For each of the five ‘fair necessities’, the index features three headline indicators that are produced by other organisations, and that allow us to assess the extent to which the ‘fair necessity’ in question has been achieved in the UK.
The headline indicators are chosen on the basis that they are relevant, robust, updated regularly, and (if possible) can be broken down by geography, socio-economic grouping, gender, race and disability.
Fair Essentials, for example include:
Three headline indicators.
Wealth: Percentage of wealth held by the richest 20% and poorest 20%
Poverty: Percentage of people living in poverty
Living standards: Percentage of people unable to afford an acceptable standard of living
It's worth taking a look at what has been developed here...Check out the podcasts tab for podcasts on the work of Danny Dorling and the book 'Limitarianism'
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