Re: Collective property

Physiocrat — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:49:23 GMT

ivanfoofoo:

How would collective property be handled in an ancap society?

I agree with Long, privatizing what was collectively homesteaded by many individuals is violating their rights, as each individual from that group had equally homesteaded the road, for example.

That leads us back to reconsider some form of collective arrangement, because everyone which walked through the road is entitled to it, so that property is not private, and should not be privatized. Or maybe, some crude form of privatization without harming the rights of the other owners?

Long's argument is a non-seqitur: it does not follow from the fact that many people homesteaded a road that collective property is the only just form of ownership. Supposing a friend and I both chop down an unowned tree in a virgin forest? Well both of us would own 50% of the tree. Analgously those who hoemsteaded the road would be entitled to a proportionate share of it. Now as to how to manage it, delineate the shares and create something like a joint stock company. There is no need to smuggle in socialised property in a libertarain society.

Collective property

ivanfoofoo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:33:48 GMT

How would collective property be handled in an ancap society?

I agree with Long, privatizing what was collectively homesteaded by many individuals is violating their rights, as each individual from that group had equally homesteaded the road, for example.

That leads us back to reconsider some form of collective arrangement, because everyone which walked through the road is entitled to it, so that property is not private, and should not be privatized. Or maybe, some crude form of privatization without harming the rights of the other owners?

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