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    It is not the case that A full development of desert-based distributive principles requires specification and defense of which activities count as socially productive.

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    • 1.Rawls argues that desert-based claims presuppose a just background structure, making social productivity derivative of institutional design, not prior to it.
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    • 2.If the criteria for 'socially productive' are themselves products of institutional choice, desert cannot serve as a pre-institutional basis for distributive principles.
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    • 1.Hayek contends that no central authority possesses the distributed knowledge required to reliably identify which activities produce social value across complex markets.
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    • 2.Desert-based distribution requires precisely the kind of social valuation that dispersed price signals, not philosophical specification, are uniquely equipped to generate.
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    • 1.Desert-based distribution depends on identifying which activities are socially productive.
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    • 2.Societies choose raising living standards as the primary value relevant to desert-based distribution.
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    • 3.Not all activities will count as socially productive and hence deserving of remuneration.
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