Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain argument against income redistribution: Suppose we set up society with your favoured egalitarian distribution.
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Then 1M people pay Wilt Chamberlain $0.25 each to watch him play. Now the distribution is broken (WC is rich), but nobody is worse off.
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So the only way to prevent this is to prohibit "capitalist acts between consenting adults".
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Bottom line: equal income distributions can only be maintained by violating people's preferences for mutually beneficial trades.
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Note this result shows egalitarian distributions impossible without massive coercion, but does NOT say current distribution is optimal.
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@simplic10 I made you read http://st-rev.livejournal.com/383957.html at some point, right1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@simplic10 At least, only *clearly* applies. Top-down dictated income spread has different dynamics from emergent.
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