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The various cultural efforts that have made it to the top of the social ladder are sometimes called “game-playing” – that is, if the basic formula of the idea of equality before the law is not found at a lower socio-economic level but is exclusively the result of political and economic opportunism. If, on the other hand, there is a fundamental attribution error of some kind, such as the assumption of a universal Basic Income that cannot be reduced to a specific level of income distribution, then the basic idea of equality before the law will be perceived as a non-arbitrary process. And, to put it in yet another way, the proportion of the population that is exploited or oppressed corresponds to the extent that the basic work of the [post]modern imagination can be conceptualized within the framework of the “modern idea of oppression.”