> This is also about not changing the rules after the fact. There's lots of fair ways to structure a society. But it undermines notions of rule of law for the government to change the terms of the bargain after-the-fact.
Surely that happens all the time, though?
I mean, if I brought a car factory in 1950 is it unjust that the government changed the deal by forcing me to start supplying seatbelts in the 1960s?