how can a global social support system hope to achieve fairer competiveness?; comment on “a global social support system: what the international community could learn from the united states’ national

Ooms et al sets out some good general principles for a global social support system to improve fairer global competitiveness as a result of redistribution. this commentary sets out to summarize some of the conditions that would need to be satisfied for it to level up gradients in inequality through such a social support system, using the national basketball association (nba) example as a point of reference. from this, the minimal conditions are described that would be required for the support system, proposed in the article by ooms et al, to succeed.