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- What about the software I wrote in the past year and a half for the schools I work for? - What about the designs my co-worker painstakingly worked on over th
by maxharris 12y ago
- What about the software I wrote in the past year and a half for the schools I work for?
- What about the designs my co-worker painstakingly worked on over the same period?
- What about the reams of reports my wife wrote at her company, which makes heart valves? She gets up at 4:30 in the morning, comes home at around 5 at night, works after dinner. When there's an important deadline coming up (which is almost all the time), she works weekends.
All of these things are property. Each of us poured ourselves into these things. We could have done other things, but we chose to do these things. In a way, we're not special - we're just three people, out of billions.
None of us are thieves. You can casually toss around your equivocations and guilt-tripping for being born, but that doesn't change the fact that many people are honest and have earned what they have.
- esrauch 12y agoI believe the person you were replying to was referring to land when he said property (which is a normal term to use, if someone asked me "are you interested in looking at a property?" it would pretty unambiguously mean land / physical building). Not that it means his stance was correct, but your argument isn't addressing his point.
- maxharris 12y agoProperty is more than just land. People have titles cars, boats, copyright over books they've written, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, furniture, clothing, timeshares, patents on things they've invented, etc. At any rate, in all three of my examples, money changed hands for work creating property. That money could be used to buy property, physical or otherwise.
- esrauch 12y agoI don't think you understood my point. The word "property" just has two separate definitions in common English, one is the one you are using and the other is verbatim "land" (which happens to be a subset of the first definition). At least in my dialect of English "a property" would always always refer to land (e.g. "steal a property" is nonsense).
- jsprogrammer 12y agoNone of that is real property. Attaching the word 'property' to those things is a legal fiction and completely different from what we were talking about.