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    It is not the case that Desert-based principles of distributive justice are morally problematic

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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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    • 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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