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Of course we acknowledge luck. (Nozick, among others, has an extended discussion of it.) But almost all our attributes are contingent, in some sense, on luck. If we only have rights to what we deserve, in some metaphysically deep sense, we have no rights.
It is a matter of luck that I was born with two functioning eyes. My religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are hugely dependent on the luck of where I’m born & how I’m raised. Very few people think this creates some obvious problem for strong rights in those domains.
This is obviously not, in itself, an argument against redistribution or a demonstration that economic holdings should be treated like these other attributes. It just goes to the premise that we can’t have rights to what we have as a matter of luck.
