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    Reducing inequality of decision-making power within the economic sphere is intrinsically significant, not merely instrumentally significant.

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    • 1.Increasing people's self-determination in their daily lives as economic agents is valuable in itself.
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    • 2.Radical democratic values extend beyond the governmental sphere to encompass wherever people's autonomy is constrained.
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    • 1.Decision-making power in economic spheres derives its moral significance solely from its effects on welfare, efficiency, and individual liberty outcomes.
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    • 2.Nozick's entitlement theory demonstrates that procedurally just economic arrangements have no intrinsic egalitarian requirement independent of how they were generated.
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    • 3.Treating equality of economic power as intrinsically valuable conflates the instrumental conditions for autonomy with autonomy itself, a category error Kant's distinction between means and ends warns against.
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    • 1.Schumpeter's and Hayek's epistemic arguments establish that dispersed price information cannot be replicated by collective deliberative structures without catastrophic efficiency losses.
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    • 2.If democratic economic governance systematically produces worse material outcomes for the least advantaged, Rawls's difference principle gives us strong reason to prefer inequality of decision-making power.
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    • 3.An arrangement that is instrumentally destructive cannot be redeemed by stipulating its intrinsic value, as intrinsic value claims without phenomenological or rational grounding are merely emotivist assertions.
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    The third point about domination mentioned above is also deployed by socialists to say that capitalism conflicts with democracy (Wright 2010: 81–4; Arnold n.d. [OIR]: sect. 4; Bowles and Gintis 1986; Meiksins Wood 1995). Democracy requires that people have roughly equal power to affect the political process that structures their social life—or at least that inequalities do not reflect morally irrelevant features such as race, gender, and class. Socialists have made three points regarding the c
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