Perhaps we should abolish all property rights? What exactly are property rights anyway? The government can use eminent domain to take them. The white people can

Perhaps we should abolish all property rights? What exactly are property rights anyway? The government can use eminent domain to take them. The white people can take them from the aboriginals. Property rights really only apply if you are powerful enough to ignore them or defend them yourself. Those home owners in Connecticut weren't powerful enough to stop the corporations from using their property to build an apartment. The same is true of patents. You can get the patent and own it legitimately, but if a more powerful corporation has better lawyers, they'll take it. It's like laws don't really exist. Laws are written to those in power as we go along. As the power shifts, the laws shift toward the powerful. I read this morning that states are reducing pensions for people who have paid into them for years. Isn't that pension, essentially their property as well? That's been taken away. Do property rights really exist? I was also thinking about it from another perspective. Say you create a park and want to charge people to enter it. You only want to let 5 people enter the park, but 10 people who didn't pay to enter, enter anyway. They don't take anything from other people. The park is still there just as the movie is still there if it is pirated. Nothing is lost except revenue for tickets to enter.