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    Material resources can be redistributed to compensate for... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Personal talent deficits can be offset by redistributing material resources to achieve an overall equal distribution.

    Material resources can be redistributed to compensate for unequal personal resource endowments.

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    Resources can be external, material goods, such as land and moveable property. One can also extend the domain, and consider traits of persons that are latent talents or instruments that help them to achieve their ends as also included within the set of resources to be equalized. Extending the domain in this way will introduce complexity into the account, because personal talents are attached to persons and cannot simply be transferred to others who lack talent. What one can do is take people's v

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