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You can absolutely avoid it. Inequality was so much less in the 1950s/1960s and we still had police and property. The disconnect here is that property rights
by drewcrawford 11y ago
You can absolutely avoid it. Inequality was so much less in the 1950s/1960s and we still had police and property.
The disconnect here is that property rights are "more guidelines than actual rules", they are quite literally "made up". It used to be that keeping a black person out of your store was a "property right", until we decided it wasn't, and then we got rid of that one. It used to be that preventing airplanes from flying over your farm was a "property right" until it wasn't, and then we got rid of that one. You can only do that if "property rights" are artificial.
I mean just look around you. We live in a world where Smartflash has a "property right" to your in-app purchases, Apple has a "property right" to your iPad, JSTOR has a "property right" to publicly-funded research, etc. etc. That's because we made it that way; let's unmake it, and do it differently!
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"Inequality was so much less in the 1950s/1960s" To a first approximation every single person on the planet had far less in the 1950s/1960s. "Equality" sucks if it means that everyone is equally impoverished.
- sytelus 11y agoNot sure about whole planet but I do realize that previous generation in USA had much higher savings rate, lower student loan, much lower mortgage to income ratio and much higher probability of retirement in 50s/60s. I have never heard people from that generation believing that they were less better off financially than we do, although we do benefit from natural evolution in technology and science.