Nozick rejects the notion of distribution of society's benefits based on equality or desert. He maintains that if we rightfully possess any goods (i.e., we obtained them legitimately), then we own them; they are not ours because we are entitled to equal shares of them or because we deserve them.
-Nozick favors patterned systems of distribution.

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Nozick argues against patterned theories of distribution, such as those based on equality or desert, and instead supports entitlement theory, which focuses on the justice of acquisition and transfer of holdings, not on achieving a particular distribution pattern.

Nozick Rejects the Notion of Distribution of Society's Benefits Based