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Re: RE: RE: private property?



On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, David Shemano wrote:

> space begins.  "Private property" is my shorthand for saying the rules will
> provide that with respect to any specific resource, commodity, etc., a
> single individual gets to decide issues of possession, use and transfer.

And if one person owns literally *everything*, the way that, say, Mao
Zedong once owned mainland China through that Absolutist-style holding
company otherwise known as the CCP? Property isn't always theft, but it's
not identical with freedom, either.

-- Dennis




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