Justice, Wealth, Health

It might be inferred from Marx's exposure of the possible exploitation, previously discussed, inherent in the payment of wages for work, that his corrective is some kind of profit-sharing of arrangement. However, his concept of Retributive Justice is more radical, as is indicated in the formulation 'From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs'. For, implicit therein is not only that what one ought to receive is not correlated with one's labor, but that Well-being, not Profit, is the deserved Good. In other words, the more general conflict between Capitalism and Marxian Socialism can be expressed as 'the wealth of a nation vs. the health of each'. So, since a nation is a collective, the fundamental difference between the two is not Individualism vs. Collectivism, as it is commonly taken to be, but Wealth vs. Health as the higher Good, and, hence, as a cardinal factor in the concept of Justice.