David Letterman is an American television host who hosted Late Night and Late Show for 33 years, becoming one of the highest-earning entertainers in television history.
As a television personality, Letterman's enormous salary versus a schoolteacher's modest wage illustrates the Rawlsian debate about whether free-market income distributions reflect genuine moral desert or merely contingent market outcomes that a just society might redistribute.
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