From: Raymond G. Van De Walker (rgvandewalker@juno.com)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 00:17:01 MDT
On Mon, 24 May 1999 13:46:39 -0500 "Billy Brown" <bbrown@conemsco.com>
writes:
>I have two simple questions for those who have expressed anti-property
>opinions on this thread.
>
>To those who have suggested that we should abandon any sort of
>property
>system, I have a more fundamental question. A system of property
>exists to
>answer the basic question "Who decides what will be done with any
>given
>resource?"
Gosh, what a wonderful question!
Why don't we become a big hive mind, and then since we will all be "I",
I will own everything, and I can do whatever I think best?
It looks to me like property is really a caching solution to a
communication problem. We vest resource rights in local processors
(people) because it's too hard to transfer the knowledge of individuals
using our low-bit rate natural languages.
Also, people have different genomes, and thus different evolutionary
accounts to which the resource are totted-up. Still, this seems soluble,
too, since 99% of human genomes are shared.
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