[Upd-discuss] !@!Public Domain & Eminent Domain

[sandor]

I think we are defining 'use' differently, :)

    In your example - the public property must first be owned before it 
can be sold for a profit..
    It must be taken from the public-domain and privatized before it can 
enter into a capitalist transaction.. This is what I mean.. At this 
point most public things already have ownership in the form of the 
public's surrogate, the state.

    But you comment on something obvious in the system.. It is far 
cheaper to sell something you don't have to pay for!
    Hence, the tendency will always be to privatize public items as they 
are 'free' to create..

-sándor
p.s.
Michael Hart recently referenced The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett 
Hardin - I highly recommend it to anyone seeking a better explanation of 
this bit of thinking..


   

Rob Myers wrote:

> On 25 Jul 2005, at 18:48, sandor wrote:
>
>>    All things public-domain are incompatible with capitalism.
>
>
> But surely not in the sense that capitalism cannot make use of them.  
> That is, capitalism can make use of the public domain quite easily,  
> and then deny the results of that usage to the public domain. In this  
> way, the public domain is more compatible with capitalism than  
> private property is, as private property must be paid for, reducing  
> profit.
>
> - Rob.
>
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