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    Principles of equality and principles of self-ownership a... — Carmelics
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    Principles of equality and principles of self-ownership are in conflict and cannot both be upheld simultaneously.

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    • 1.Self-ownership entails comprehensive entitlement to one's earnings without compelled redistribution.
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    • 2.Egalitarian redistribution through taxation requires compelled contribution from the wealthy.
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    • 3.These two requirements are mutually exclusive.
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    • 1.Self-ownership, properly construed, generates only rights against assault and coercion, not absolute claims over pre-tax income.
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    • 2.Rawlsian and Cohenic analysis shows that baseline entitlements depend on social institutions, making 'earnings' a post-distributive concept.
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    • 3.If the very magnitude of one's earnings presupposes a just background structure, taxation that maintains that structure violates no self-ownership right.
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    • 1.G.A. Cohen argues that capitalism itself violates self-ownership by forcing the propertyless to sell labor under structural coercion.
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    • 2.If both equality and self-ownership are violated under unregulated markets, the supposed conflict dissolves into a question of which institutional arrangement best honors both values simultaneously.
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    Still even if we concede that property is the product of social rules, and that normative thinking about the former must be preceded by normative thinking about the latter, there might be facts about the human condition or our agency as embodied beings that provide philosophical premises for an argument that property relations should be established in one way rather than another. Clearly, there is at least one material object with which a person does seem to have an intimate pre-legal relation t
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