• Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Private ownership of things made by people is perfectly reasonable; the person who made the thing should own it and be able to sell or transfer it as desired. So a rock you found isn’t made by people, so yeah, but a painting, or a chair, etc, was.

    It’s land that wasn’t made by people where private ownership gets really ridiculous.

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      9 months ago

      I can relate to that, but even in this manner, most of the goods made are the result of vast investments of time efort and money of lots of peoples over decades, just for few individuals to be the owners of.

      (Btw, English is not my main language)

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        9 months ago

        Well, under a free market economic system, each of those people is paid for their input to the thing, and only participates in that when they decide it’s worth their time to do so.

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      9 months ago

      But land is literally the first form of property. Territory is defended in life’s history long before any moveable object.

      If anything, the conception of certain objects as being part of a person’s territory is the stranger step to take.

      • SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I kinda get the feeling that food was the first form of property. Land (by way of good shelter) was probably a close second with good rocks and sticks.