Nozick’s first premise is that the patterned principles of distributive justice involve taking away success from the actions of others. Nozick gives examples as to how this would be done; he concludes that through the process of distributive justice many people will benefit from the success of others. The next premise for this argument says that by acquiring wealth from someone else’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours of their time. This means that the principles of distributive justice direct people to work harder and longer so that others may benefit. This means that distributive justice takes more from those who have achieved success and redistributes their success to someone who didn’t earn it. Equally redistributing wealth applies that
