> Property is an informational concept more than a legal one. The concept of "mine" is present at a very young age, and clearly present in various animal groups

> Property is an informational concept more than a legal one. The concept of "mine" is present at a very young age, and clearly present in various animal groups. All money and contracts indicating ownership of property mean nothing without either the consent of all involved or the backing of violence (mind you, our system very much relies on violence, we have people who are empowered to enact violence to enforce property law). There's also a huge distinction between possession (physically having and using something) and owning it (having the enforceable legal right to control how it is used). And while this concept of control/territoriality might be naturally present in human psychological development, so are things like trying to use violence to resolve disputes and other asocial aspects of human psychology that we actively discourage. The idea that we should use property as the basis for how society functions is something we seldom interrogate regarding whether it creates the kind of world we actually want. > It's not clear what a society without property would be like, BTW. Try reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin. It really opened up my mind regarding the way our society is shaped by the idea of ownership.