  Notice that we might deny that the sufficiency view is a rival to egalitarianism. One might instead hold that sufficiency is a version of egalitarianism. Sufficiency holds that all persons equally have a claim to live a sufficiently good life, and that people's condition is relevantly and importantly equal when all equally live at or above the level of sufficiency. I assume there need be no more than verbal disagreement between one who asserts and one who denies that the sufficiency advocate values a type of equality. (This purely verbal disagreement can arise whenever someone asserts that the doctrine that all should equally have X or receive X treatment is an egalitarian and someone else denies that this X theory is genuinely egalitarian.)