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Robert Nozick: Individuals
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Nozick condemned "distributive justice" as implying that society has resources to distribute, whereas only individuals do, and are entitled to hold or transfer them. What can be happier for all parties, he argued in a characteristically vivid example, than the way the famous basketball player Wilt Chamberlain sells his skills - making a much larger than average income - and his audience pay 25 cents each to watch him, rather than spending that amount on movies, magazines or candy bars. "From each as they chose, to each as they are chosen," was Nozick's rewriting of Karl Marx.
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Nozick's argument stated that justice is built upon a foundation of self-ownership. From ownership of one's self, it follows that the results of labor and skill by an individual are owned by that person as well. Further, individual owners can freely exchange ownership of property between each other.
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Nozick ask why it is to be assumed that differences between persons are arbitrary unless they can be justified. A central distributor would perhaps be bound to treat all alike unless for good reason, but in a free society distribution results from many localized exchanges between individuals entitled to bestow their holdings as they wish. p. 223.
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