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> our current IP system has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with Western power and interest. Property rights are neither a question of moralit
by totalZero 6y ago
> our current IP system has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with Western power and interest.
Property rights are neither a question of morality nor a question of realpolitik. They are an economic construct. Property is the only so-called natural right that does not exist at birth. We are born with life, and we are born with liberty, but we are not born with property.
- sudosysgen 6y agoI never understood this line of argument. Economics is 100% inextricable from realpolitik. Whether you have a socially constructed economic right or not is 100% a question of realpolitik. Also, private property simply isn't a natural right, not even by the definition of Hobbes. The right of exclusion of something you don't use is neither natural nor universal in most early human civilizations, it just simply isn't a natural right. And intellectual property in particular is perhaps the opposite of a natural right.
- DetroitThrow 6y agoLocke ran with Life, Liberty, and Estate but even the American founding fathers went with the idea that Estate is an socioeconomic construct for the purpose of "freedom".