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    It is not the case that Principles of equality and principles of self-ownership are in conflict and cannot both be upheld simultaneously.

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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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    • 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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