Your explanation is natural, even obvious I'd say, for today. Imagining though how people of the future would ask "Why all those people had to suffer and die in

Your explanation is natural, even obvious I'd say, for today. Imagining though how people of the future would ask "Why all those people had to suffer and die in the cold?" your explanation given as the response to that question would sound like "They didn't have a right critical for their survival" - very unconvincing to say the least. >Humans have understood, and enforced, "property rights" for quite a while now. May be 10-12K years. Copyright has had only 500 years and is already in turmoil. The property rights may as well be just an artifact of scarcity, similar to how copyright has been an artifact of "copy". Thus with technological progress, space exploration, etc. the property rights may get completely changed or even completely disappear, at least those property rights that we today call so. And in several thousand years the current property rights and their power over an individual well-being would be a hard to understand puzzle. Especially if the future people will get even more capable of empathy and less prone to violence, greed, etc. >If it was as easy as just building some apartments and walking away from responsibility after that, this would be a much easier thing to solve. Again, in future it may be even much easier than that, and the future people would be looking at it like generation Z looks at paper maps (and that is just meager 20 years of tech progress - now compound such changes 50 times over 1000 years)