<p>This piece is a reply to a promising attempt to revise and refine our understanding of predistribution. This is a proposal advanced by Martin O’Neill. It summarises that proposal and, subsequently, presents three objections to it. It concludes that we should ultimately reject the proposal. The piece then advances a positive proposal about how to cash out the egalitarian ideal of predistribution. Among other strengths, it is more likely to be more appealing to a broader array of egalitarian doctrines.</p>