Social justice what is meant by this term Economist development expert and long standing Secretary General of Deutscher Caritasver band Professor Georg Cremer PhD explains Social justice is on every one s lips but the kind of justice con cept that s being addressed in the re spective context is seldom precisely defined equal civil rights trade jus tice contributive justice equality of opportunity and distributive justice And there s one dimension I often find to be absent completely capa bilities based justice Capabilities based justice is a hu man centric concept Every individ ual by nature has physical and cog nitive abilities with which he or she is able to perceive options for action But in order to do so people need certain prerequisites which they re unable to secure on their own says Cremer What are these prerequisites Cremer includes in them a nurturing family a stimulating social environ ment a healthy environment a polit ical system that assures the individu al s rights adequate healthcare and an open educational system Equally important is access to resources and incomes Cremer criticizes The wel fare state is often its own worst ene my Fragmented responsibilities and budget conflicts prevent effective help being provided from a single source to people living in precarious circumstances Do economic and social interests get in each other s way Cremer says Those who want to effectively defend the social market economy mustn t limit their rationale to the totally justified argument that this type of economic order secures our wealth We also have to look at the fringes At the people who fail in an educational system that s un able to loosen the link between so cial background and educational success as well as at those who in a 4 4 billion The wealth of the world s nearly 2 200 billionaires increased by this much in 2018 per day Source World Bank 2019 people are living below the poverty line 700 million of them not even have 1 60 euros per day at their disposal 2 5 billion SOCIAL JUSTICE growing non unionized service sec tor can t make ends meet The social market economy also has to prove its viability on the fringes An example of effectively imple mented capabilities based jus tice In Germany 80 percent of the roughly half a million people with autism are unemployed because they re almost always reduced to their impairments rather than focus ing on their outstanding capabilities such as logical thinking excellent recognition of patterns and flaws high concentration and accuracy in details Exactly this is what IT con sultancy Auticon does The people with autism who work there for in stance develop software or detect disconnects in the logic of com plex processes The perspective is misleading the financial gap between the rich and the poor is enormous especially in threshold countries Source Oxfam 2019 Fairness is indispensable to the social market economy Prof Georg Cremer PhD University of Freiburg 21 20

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