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    A regime of equal money distribution could only be mainta... — Carmelics
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    A regime of equal money distribution could only be maintained through wrongful interference with people's liberty.

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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory establishes that holdings are just only if acquired through just acquisition or voluntary transfer.
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    • 2.Enforced redistribution violates the Kantian constraint against using persons merely as means by treating individuals as resources for others' benefit.
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    • 3.Any patterned distributive principle necessarily conflicts with liberty because maintaining any pattern requires continuous interference with voluntary exchanges.
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    • 1.Hayek's spontaneous order theory demonstrates that free market outcomes reflect dispersed knowledge no central authority can possess or legitimately override.
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    • 2.Coercively reversing market outcomes punishes individuals for acting on legitimate expectations created by the prior equal distribution itself.
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    • 1.If money is distributed equally at one point in time, people will freely choose actions that tend to produce unequal distributions over time.
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    • 2.Sustaining equal distribution therefore requires continuously intervening to reverse the outcomes of people's free choices.
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    • 3.Continuously intervening to reverse the outcomes of people's free choices constitutes wrongful interference with liberty.
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    This ideal is attractive to some and repulsive to others. One serious objection is that to bring about and sustain the condition in which all people have the same amount of money would require continuous and extensive violation of people's Lockean rights, which as standardly understood include the right to gain more property than others possess by gift or trade or hard work. Another, closely related objection is that a regime of equal money could be maintained only by wrongful interference with
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