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> Libertarians would free property owners from government restrictions on their rights to control and enjoy their property This fascination with property right
by czep 9y ago
> Libertarians would free property owners from government restrictions on their rights to control and enjoy their property
This fascination with property rights is why libertarians are so often dismissed. Liberty should mean a lot more than base selfish "get your hands off my property." It's also not workable in a vastly unequal society. With a lot of the world's wealth having been accumulated by birth, status, or cultural capital, all diametrically opposite of any notion of having earned that wealth, it's a non-starter to suggest that the rest of us "have-nots" dare not place any limits on what the haves can do with the property they magically acquired.
You want absolute property rights? I'd be fine with that if the inheritance tax was 100% and everyone started off on equal footing, with an equal chance to succeed based purely on their own hard work. That'll never happen, and that's exactly why we need to place serious controls on excessive wealth accumulation.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoExactly, every instance of property ownership in the world without exception started with someone at some point in history staking a claim to it by keeping everyone else off of it through the threat of violence, but then libertarians come along and decide that any attempt to remove that claim to property ownership and return it to the natural state of not being exclusively owned by anyone is unacceptable violent coercion. The whole philosophy is self-contradictory nonsense. They claim to be against all forms of violent coercion, but then enshrine the largest and most widespread system of violent coercion ever to exist as a sacred right.