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The question of luck in egalitarian thought is the thing I don't think can truly be resolved, despite how much my friend wanted it to be. Is it hypocrisy to just shrug at luck in fairness? I kind of think it is, but it isn't something that I think can truly be solved for, since there doesn't seem to be a way to equate different bonuses nor equate different problems. I imagine people trying to distill everything down to money or time in order to solve this, but I'm pretty sure there will always be value judgments involved in that. In a sense, some of the unfairness to free markets comes down to people making value judgments with their money. These value judgments are why I don't think a labor theory of value works. Even if an artist wants to cater their labor to consumer values, luck still plays a huge role. I have a hard time reconciling artistic integrity vs focusing on the business case, especially if luck were to be eliminated.

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