results from differences in how people work (one works hard and earns more money, the other one is lazy and stays poor, an inequality that seems fair)Ascriptive inequality and Achieved inequality is sometimes hard to distinguish: Is a person`s achievment the result of hard work or is it the result of environmental preconditions and good luck? Very offen the line is "kind of blurred".in fact for some people some things are much more possible than for others ( rich boy / poor boy)the positions are achieved, it is a result of sth. people have done, but conditions and possibilities are quite different