Only private property in products of labor solves any problems. Private property in privilege just creates problems.
You might get an argument from Spartacus on that one, not to mention the victims, both rich and poor, of every revolution against propertied, plutocratic privilege.For avoiding and resolving conflicts,
The refutation of that claim can be found on every long-vacant privately owned lot in every major city.for efficiently allocating resources,
I.e., for forcing the productive to labor for the unearned profit of unproductive owners of privileges like land titles, who consequently need not labor at all.for enabling division of labor,
By unproductive privilege owners at the expense of producers....for enabling wealth accumulation,
By setting Gunther the dog immovably above 99.999% of humanity:for respecting individual variation,
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...rich-list.html
By destroying the families of the landless working poor by relentless financial duress, you mean...for making strong loving families possible,
But only for the privileged... The soul-destroyed landless poor of Haiti, Pakistan, the Philippines, etc. don't have a lot of dignity.for enabling human dignity,
Millions of the landless poor starve wretchedly every year because of your evil propertarian creed -- an annual Holocaust of the landless.for enabling humans to even survive at all as opposed to starving wretchedly,
But private property in anything but products of private labor is an abomination, and the greatest evil in the history of the world.for all these triumphs and more, private property is one of the most sublime creations of the human mind.
For the privileged at the expense of the productive.When private property is allowed to be the operating principle over the realm of any resource or aspect of existence, triumph after triumph ensues.
Until the victims of propertied privilege can bear oppression and injustice no longer, and take up arms to oppose it.Peace and harmony prevail.
To be destroyed by the relentless increase of inequality and injustice that property in anything but products of labor inevitably brings.Order and civilization in ever-increasing beauty and complexity is built.
Except that what you describe has happened perhaps most extravagantly in Hong Kong -- where there has been no private property in land for over 160 years.Men reach and achieve ever-loftier aspirations and ever-more-astonishing wealth -- wealth of all types, not mammon only.
No, it is rightly applied only to products of labor, not to people or natural resources. Those are the three constituent classes of the physical universe, and property only rightly applies to one of them, because only property in that one does not violate others' rights.The LVT people seem to understand the salutatory effect of private property when applied to all aspects of existence... except for land.
That is exactly correct: they are all we ALL have to work with. So to deprive anyone of them without just compensation is flat-out murder. You seek to rationalize and justify that murder.That is, except for the raw resources of the Universe. Yet the raw resources of the Universe are all that we have to work with!
No. Rather, to make the foundation the property of some, so that they are legally entitled to take everything others contribute to the whole edifice, is to build a slave labor camp, and equip it with a sacrificial altar on which to lay the millions of annual human sacrifices that your Great God Property demands.Everything that we have and everything that we know is either a raw resource of the universe, or a rearrangement of those resources to make them un-raw. The resources are, then, in that sense, the bedrock for everything else, the whole human edifice. To grant private property in the entire structure built upon that foundation, but to deny it in the foundation, is to build a house upon the sand.
Only if we wish to be completely stupid and evil. Your vicious propertarian creed holds that even government should be private property and serve only its owners, not the people. It holds that even the earth, the oceans, the air we breathe should be private property, so that even the right to life is reduced to a commodity we must rent from our greedy, idle, privileged, evil propertied masters.We must apply the principle of private property to everything possible.
No. Securing the equal human rights of all to life, liberty and peaceful enjoyment of the fruits of our labor creates boundaries of action, order, and a noble, human existence.Doing so creates boundaries of action, those boundaries create order, and order creates a noble, indeed a human, existence.
That is nothing but despicable, evil bull$#!+. Greed (unfortunately mistranslated as "love of money") is the root of all evil. The propertarian religion enshrines greed -- evil -- as its only virtue, and takes theft and predation on one's fellows as its sacraments.To leave anything outside the domain of private property which we could conceivably incorporate into that domain, is to leave an outpost for barbarism and chaos.
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