Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:09PM
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> but criticism of wealth inequality is often based on what happens _after_ the wealth is earned too.
IIRC, that's precisely what Nozick is nominally interested in exploring (although he really doesn't).
There at least 2 distinctions going on:
1. whether wealth is acquired with or without exploitation; Nozick uses consent as a proxy for exploitation, which is dubious but predictable given that he's a libertarian
2. whether there are ill-effects to (excessive) wealth regardless of how it was acquired
IIRC, that's precisely what Nozick is nominally interested in exploring (although he really doesn't).
There at least 2 distinctions going on:
1. whether wealth is acquired with or without exploitation; Nozick uses consent as a proxy for exploitation, which is dubious but predictable given that he's a libertarian
2. whether there are ill-effects to (excessive) wealth regardless of how it was acquired