Why a basketball star's ticket sales can wreck 'fair' equality

Robert Nozick imagined a perfectly equal society where fans then freely pay extra just to watch a star player. Within a season, the star is rich and equality is gone — with no one's rights violated. Nozick used it to argue that maintaining any fixed distribution of wealth requires constantly interfering with free choices.

— Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia — Basic Books, 1974
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