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The concept of "deserve" can be harmful. We like to think about whether we "deserve" what we get, or whether someone else deserves what he/she has. But in reality there is no such mechanism. I prefer to invert "deserve" into the future: deserve your luck by exploiting it.
Of course, "deserve" can be a useful social mechanism to increase desired actions. But only within that context.
So you're saying we like thinking about a moral property, but we're wrong to do so, because this property is not reliably instanciated? Desert theorist do not need to disagree - there's no law of physics that means people necessarily get what they deserve. Rather, we are supposed to be the mechanism - we must regulate our own affairs so as to ensure that people get what they deserve.
Perhaps the bad concept here is actually "karma", which I understand roughly to be the claim that there is a law of physics that means people necessarily get what they deserve.
I think around here we can call that the just-world fallacy.