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    It is not the case that Desert principles that tie desert-bases to socially productive activity do so because societies value higher standards of living, not because the concept of desert itself requires this.

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    • 1.Desert is an internally structured concept that tracks contribution to shared cooperative schemes, not merely contingent social preferences.
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    • 2.Rawls, Miller, and Feinberg all identify productive contribution as conceptually tied to desert via the logic of reciprocity in cooperative enterprises.
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    • 3.If desert itself tracks reciprocal contribution to joint ventures, then socially productive activity is a desert-base by conceptual necessity, not social contingency.
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    • 1.The claim conflates the content of desert-bases with external justifications, ignoring that desert concepts have internal normative structure.
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    • 2.Aristotle's proportionality principle in distributive justice grounds desert in contribution to the polis, making productive activity conceptually prior to mere social valuation.
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    • 1.Contemporary desert principles all share the value of raising the social product.
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    • 2.Under each desert principle, only activity directed at raising the social product serves as a basis for deserving income.
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    • 3.The concept of desert itself does not yield the value of raising the social product.
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