What is preventing me from walking up to their Tesla and driving off with it?[1] Yes, there are security mechanisms and social norms that would prevent most pe

What is preventing me from walking up to their Tesla and driving off with it?[1] Yes, there are security mechanisms and social norms that would prevent most people from doing that sort of thing. Yet there are more than enough people out there who would gladly take exception to that sort of thing and gladly take the Tesla as their own. The whole notion of property rights is a social construct. We use governments to enforce that social construct. Until humanity can learn how to share things (rather than just take things), we are certainly better off for it. Copyright is somewhat different in the sense that it is relatively easy to copy without depriving someone of their copy, yet it can still be viewed as depriving the creator of the potential value of their work. [1] Don't worry. I don't drive.