You are the leader of a treasure hunting team. Under your great direction, your team has made a big success in a quest, and got a lot of treasure. The only, but crucial, remaining issue is how to distribute the obtained treasure to the team members.
The excavated treasure includes a variety of precious items: gold ingots, jewelry with brilliant gem stones, exquisite craft works, etc. Each team member individually estimates the values of the items. The estimated values are consistent, in that, for any pair of two items, when some member estimates one to be strictly higher than the other, no member estimates oppositely, although some may give equal estimates.
All the members are sensible and thus understand the difficulty of even distribution of the items. Hence, no member will complain simply because, based on the member’s own estimation, the sum of the values of the member’s share is lower than that of another member’s share. The members, however, may get angry if their own shares look unreasonably shabby compared to some other member’s; what they cannot stand is when their own shares are estimated strictly lower than the share of that other member even after getting rid of one item with the least estimated value.
Your last mission as the leader is to decide who receives which items so that no member gets angry. Some of the members may receive nothing as long as they do not get angry.