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

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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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    • 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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