Re: Monopolies

[will burre <redscares@yahoo.com>]

(it's debatable how on-topic this discussion of the
roots of property are on a monopoly list.  could just
as appropriately discuss the purpose of trade or of
moral behaviour.)
  
Popularity Is Not Morality, Utility or Logic"
the ancient _popularity_ of (at least the most basic)
property concepts, which Andy points out, neither
justifies this week's particular divisions of
ownership nor proves Andy's assertion that property is
self-evidently "the best way ... to improve living
standards and ... enjoyment of life".  

Ownership Requires Millions' Constant Labor to Define:
most participants even in the industrialized world's
economies could not begin to define the bulk of the
rules of ownership which Libertarians and Randistas
consider to be sacred and natural (in part based on
their supposed universal popularity).  nor could any
individual.  strictly speaking, the body of specific
rules of property has become literally
incomprehensible to individual human beings, and i
would argue inevitably so.

>>armies of lawyers exist because the justice system
is >>so complicated.

the much maligned "justice system" is mostly caselaw,
the components of which are only rarely initiated by
lawyers' claims or by governments'.  overwhelmingly
human litigants, i.e. individuals and parties
essentially believing in the demonstrable moral
superiority of their claim of ownership in the face of
opposition, initiated these inevitable
complications--complications which, like monopolies,
are incorrectly treated as government-contrived
aberrations of the system.



--- aaa@netcom.com wrote:
> Private property exists because at this time it is
> the best way for people
> to improve their living standards and their
> enjoyment of life.  The armies
> of lawyers exist because the justice system is so
> complicated.  Monopolies
> with few exceptions occurr because the government
> supports them.  andy
> 
> 
> 

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