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    Desert-based principles of distributive justice are moral... — Carmelics
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    Desert-based principles of distributive justice are morally problematic

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    • 1.Desert claims presuppose a pre-institutional baseline of entitlements, but Rawls shows no such morally neutral baseline exists.
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    • 2.Without a pre-institutional baseline, desert claims merely ratify whatever distribution existing institutions happen to produce.
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    • 3.Principles that merely ratify existing distributions cannot serve as independent criteria of distributive justice.
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    • 1.Desert-based principles require a determinate account of what people deserve, but market wages reflect bargaining power and scarcity, not moral worth.
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    • 2.Elizabeth Anderson's relational egalitarianism demonstrates that desert rhetoric historically entrenches hierarchies by naturalizing contingent social advantages.
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    • 1.Desert-based principles make economic benefits depend on factors over which people have little control
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    • 2.It is morally objectionable to make economic benefits depend on factors over which people have little control
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    The main moral objection to desert-based principles is that they make economic benefits depend on factors over which people have little control. John Rawls has made one of the most widely discussed arguments to this effect (Rawls 1971), and while a strong form of this argument has been clearly refuted (Zaitchik, Sher), it remains a problem for desert-based principles. The problem is most pronounced in the case of productivity-based principles—people’s productivity seems clearly to be influenced
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