---Bryan Hyden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> steve wrote...
>
> >Yeah like the tragedy of the commons. Your problem is not with
> >private property but the initial allocation of resources.
>
> well, first of all i don't consider it to be MY problem.... i
consider it
> to be A problem.... but you are right in part.... let us ask, how
were
> resources initially allocated? well, we'd have to go pretty far
back for
> the answer to that... throughout most of history, they were
allocated on
> one simple basis... "might makes right"... the stronger and more
powerful
> (usually physically, be it a person or a nation) took control of
> resources... and all of history can be seen as either taking, or
fighting
> to keep, those resources.... and this continues to this day.... and
as i've
> said before, the idea of private property was origionally
implemented for
> the benifit of protecting an individual against the ill intentioned
advances
> of others... but it hasn't worked.... or it's gone down hill,
either way
> one looks at it... the fact is that the wealth is distributed very
> disproportionally, and people all over the world are starving to death
> unnecessarily because of this.... private property might not be the
source
> of the problem, but it isn't helping at all... at least not in the
form
> that it's now in.... there should be some changes....
You still haven't shown how private property has resulted in a bad
outcome. You have shown how the use of force has resulted in bad
outcomes. Here is the solution. Have everyone put all their various
resources (money, stocks, bonds, cars, house(s), stero, televisions,
etc.) into a big pot and then redistribute it in a "just" manner.
Then let the market take over. People will then be starting from a
"just" endowment and can engage in beneficial exhanges for what they
may want.
> private property might not be the source
> of the problem, but it isn't helping at all... at least not in the
form
> that it's now in.... there should be some changes....
Tell me when you are hungry do you take a nap?
Steve
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