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    Enforcing equal distribution of money among all people wo... — Carmelics
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    Enforcing equal distribution of money among all people would require continuous and extensive violation of Lockean property rights.

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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that any patterned distribution principle requires continuous interference with voluntary exchanges.
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    • 2.Equal monetary distribution is a patterned principle that is disrupted by any voluntary transfer between persons.
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    • 3.Restoring equality after each disruption requires coercive redistribution, which Nozick identifies as a rights violation equivalent to forced labor.
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    • 1.Locke grounds property rights in self-ownership, meaning individuals possess legitimate claims to fruits of their labor prior to state redistribution.
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    • 2.Any scheme demanding ongoing confiscation of legitimately earned income treats persons as means to an egalitarian end, violating their status as self-owners.
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    • 1.Lockean rights standardly include the right to gain more property than others through gift, trade, or hard work.
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    • 2.Maintaining equal money distribution requires preventing individuals from acquiring more than others through these means.
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    • 3.Preventing individuals from exercising Lockean property rights constitutes a violation of those rights.
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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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