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I don't see the philosophical side here. "Rights" are a purely human construct and only exists in civilizations in the first place (try to convince a bear of yo
by em500 3y ago
I don't see the philosophical side here. "Rights" are a purely human construct and only exists in civilizations in the first place (try to convince a bear of your right to set foot in a wood).
If you're content to stay some place where nobody else would want to be, say in the middle of Greenland or Mongolia, nobody is going to bother you for payments. You probably just won't survive long. Everywhere else, you need some sort of allocation mechanism, since by assumption you occupy some place that others also find desirable for settlement). Payments (rents and taxes) are how most societies allocate the majority of scarce resources.