Desert is that which has earned trust.
We apportion deservedness in order to assign trust appropriately. To credit one part for the work a different part is doing is a recipe for breakdown. It is not about fairness, it is about keeping the machine in proper running order.
When proper maintenance identifies desert each part is humble and divests itself of credit for value to which it did not contribute.
It is one thing to compete for credit one might deserve, it is another thing to grab credit that is undeserved. That is a pathological form of competition because it is predicated on a degenerate form of private property claim – claims not based on making.
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