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Ex-Ante Prioritarianism and Ex-Post Prioritarianism are ways of deciding how to help people based on how badly off they are. Ex-Ante Prioritarianism looks at how to help people before knowing the outcome, while Ex-Post Prioritarianism looks at the outcome and then helps the worst off. Both ways can end up making things worse for everyone.