Property rights = freedom? Libertarianism?
July 13, 2012 at 12:40 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2012 at 12:42 am by goddamnit.)
Right-wing libertarians who advocate laissez-faire capitalism speak about private property rights and freedom, and how evil the initiation of force is.
Property is the idea that everyone else who wants to use an item is forcibly threatened not to use it, unless a particular person or group of people ("owners") declares others can use it. You may argue something along the lines of that being justified by labor sacrificed to alter a natural resource and make it valuable, but even if that point holds up, it still requires coercion to maintain the selective permissions of an item.
Imagine if all property was private, including land. You are in a private field but only welcome to stay for 24 hours. All homes and roads surrounding you are declared private property. If you leave the field in any direction without permission, you will be trespassing and force may be legally used against you. Is this liberty or confinement?
In a libertarian right market, laissez-faire, would anyone and everyone who is legally an adult (without a criminal record) be permitted to buy and sell nuclear missiles?
Does Austrian economics oversimplify the question of minimum wage by overlooking turnover rates? Harvard economists have supposedly released journal publications with controlled studies that challenge traditional criticisms of minimum wage and unemployment. If you are interested, here is an interview about it.
Property is the idea that everyone else who wants to use an item is forcibly threatened not to use it, unless a particular person or group of people ("owners") declares others can use it. You may argue something along the lines of that being justified by labor sacrificed to alter a natural resource and make it valuable, but even if that point holds up, it still requires coercion to maintain the selective permissions of an item.
Imagine if all property was private, including land. You are in a private field but only welcome to stay for 24 hours. All homes and roads surrounding you are declared private property. If you leave the field in any direction without permission, you will be trespassing and force may be legally used against you. Is this liberty or confinement?
In a libertarian right market, laissez-faire, would anyone and everyone who is legally an adult (without a criminal record) be permitted to buy and sell nuclear missiles?
Does Austrian economics oversimplify the question of minimum wage by overlooking turnover rates? Harvard economists have supposedly released journal publications with controlled studies that challenge traditional criticisms of minimum wage and unemployment. If you are interested, here is an interview about it.
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