One is asked to imagine what kind of distribution schemes one might agree to not knowing in advance one’s place in society. I imagine pie charts of various sizes sliced in different ways floating by me. Maybe we can even add Nozick’s games and their rules into the mix. If we are not overwhelmed, we choose as scheme and are suddenly given a slice of pie or a starting position within that scheme. If one ever complains, they are reminded, ‘but this is what you chose’ and this is supposed to satisfy them. But does it really? Think how many things you have chosen that you later regret, or at least wonder about alternatives. Initially choosing a distributive scheme is not sufficient for an ideal society, we must keep choosing it. The preference has to be stable. Rawl’s original position thought problem tells us a lot about what societies we would enter into, not as much about societies we would continue to live in.

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