The conclusion they reached was that the redistribution of wealth that occurs when the Government collects part of people’s income does not come about as the result of a previous consensus to relieve the effects of misfortune on our work (as occurs in a Rousseaunian social contract), but rather “is generally done because those who have lass, do not want to have less, regardless of whether they have less because they work less or because they have had bad luck”, points out Antonio Cabrales, tenured professor in UC3M’s Economics Department. “Let’s say it is a Hobbesian redistribution: the one with the most power, in this case in based on voting, gets more resources”.