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7 Libertarian Papers 55 (2015)
Wilt Chamberlain Revisited Revisited: Interpretive, Practical, and Theoretical Problems for Fried's Left-Lockeanism

handle is hein.journals/libpa7 and id is 55 raw text is: LIBERTARIAN PAPERS 'VILT CHAMBERLAIN REVISITED REVISITED: INTERPRETIVE, PRACTICAL, AND THEORETICAL PROBLEMS FOR FRIED'S LEFT-LOCI-EANISM LIBERTY FvITZ-CLARIDGE* I. Introduction THE ARGUMENT NOZICK ILLUSTRATES with his famous Wilt Chamberlain (WC) scenario' aims to discredit the case for patterned distribution of wealth-that is, cases where the state redistributes the existing holdings of its subjects according to one or more of its own criteria. Nozick first asks us to imagine the distribution stipulated by our favourite patterned conception of distributive justice.2 He then imagines that Wilt Chamberlain, a popular basketball player, makes a contract with a team under which he plays in the team's games for one year and receives twenty-five cents from the price of each ticket in compensation. One million people attend Chamberlain's games, so he ends up with $250,000. The distribution no longer matches the favoured distribution with which the example started. And yet, the following are also the case: (1) All persons in our scenario were entitled to their holdings at the starting point. (2) Intuitively, being entitled to *Liberty Fitz-Claridge (libertyfitzclaridgeggmail.com) is a student at University College London. I would like to thank David Deutsch, Sam Waters, and two anonymous referees for their patience in reading and commenting on earlier drafts of this article. CITATION INFORMATION FOR THIS ARTICLE: Liberty Fitz-Claridge. 2015. Wilt Chamberlain Revisited Revisited: Interpretive, Practical, and Theoretical Problems for Fried's Left- Lockeanism. Liberaran Papers. 7 (1): 55-69. ONLINE AT: libertarianpapers.org. THIS ARTICLE IS subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (creativecommons.org/licenses). 1 Nozick, 1974: 160-4. 2 Ibid.: 160. VOL. 7, No. 1 (2015)

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