The concept of mutual advantage is associated with the idea, crudely put, that everyone governed by principles of justice can be said to have gained from the implementation of these principles. Much effort has been spent on trying to locate this sort of requirement within a theory in ways that leave sufficient space for other moral requirements, such as egalitarian ones. Recent opinion now tends towards the view that this cannot be accomplished, and that the connection between justice and mutual advantage must be rejected. I argue that this reaction is too hasty, and overlooks some unexplored methods through which the relation between equality and advantage might be conceived. In this way, I aim to take some steps towards finding a plausible place for mutual advantage in a theory of justice.