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If you abolish all property rights, all social trust would eradicate. I also think intellectual property is nonsense, but you cannot easily extend that notion i
by anticensor 8y ago
If you abolish all property rights, all social trust would eradicate. I also think intellectual property is nonsense, but you cannot easily extend that notion into all kinds of property.
- dredmorbius 8y agoWe can debate what property rights we do or don't care to maintain, or how to offset their harms -- taxes on wealth, IP renewals, and the like, would likely help, for example. The principle of private land ownership, as distinguished from either common holdings or a tenancy granted by (usually) royal charter, is fairly novel. And the distortionary consequences of rents amongst the oldest and most pernicious problems in economics. http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp29.htm http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp29.htm But it is not possible to argue against property's very mechanism. It is a grant of right of exclusion under legal sanction. Proudhon's original words on this are well worth reading, if an unpopular opinion these days.