From: david_musick@juno.com
Date: Mon May 10 1999 - 17:43:30 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote,
"Excludable property--resources that can only be used by one person at a
time--are a simple fact of objective reality, and no amount of
hand-waving and pretty prose can change that. "Hoarding" can
exacerbate shortages, and even create them, but to think that eliminating
hoarding will eliminate all shortages is childish fantasy. Property
rights may or may not be the best way to allocate scarce resource; it is
definitely the best one so far tried. There may be an even better
solution, but I doubt that denying the problem will lead to finding it."
Most property that humans use is created by humans, and we can always
create more. There is a finite amount of accessible natural resources on
Earth, but there is plenty to provide all humans with a very comfortable
living situation, with current technology. Because humans generally view
most other humans as enemies, they refuse to cooperate with each other to
provide a comfortable situation for all involved. This perpetual war
among most humans is the source of most human problems.
"Property rights" is a good solution when people have little respect for
each other and would routinely deprive each other of the basic
necessities for living. But the concept of property rights does little
to heal the underlying hostility among humans. If people were not so
hostile towards each other, there would be no need for "property rights".
- David Musick
our hostility towards each other is our most basic problem
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