Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please Books Alistair Duff asks if people should be compensated for bad luck. Leaving Nothing to Chance (2025) by Carl Knight, is an informed, proficient and lucid defence of luck egalitarianism. This is the idea that people should be socially compensated for their bad luck (for instance, being born poor). This book is radical and innovative, articulating the case for what the writer calls ‘all-luck’ egalitarianism. Dr Knight, a professor at the University of Glasgow, argues for the neutralization by state intervention not just of ‘unchosen’ bad luck – for example, the state taking measures to equalise the lives of those born of diminutive stature (that’s my example; I often think about their plight) – but also of ‘chosen’ bad luck – for example losing at gambling (Knight’s example).…