Re: thank you, price \'gougers\'
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If someone else can take the product of your labor, they have effectively enslaved you.
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This was in response to something i said about property rights being seen as illegitamte leading to revolution.
Suppose that in a system where many people have very little property (due largely to the fact that over the years very little has been handed down to them, unlike other elements of society which inherit large amounts of non-human capital) a revolution occurs, with wealth distribution as its motive.
Would you say that the rich in this society have been enslaved, and that the poor therefore are their masters?
I get at these issues because i disagree with your idea that people create their own property, most owned property in the world is heavily linked to the inertia of property allocations in previous generations.
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