Property

Property rightly understood is an institution that would allow people to make cost/benefit judgments on their own subjective and unique terms. It’s a means of disuniting interests so they can be negotiated rather than asserted. It protects individuals from centralized judgment and universal evaluation.

But the absolutist property rights that we see in Lockean, and especially Neo-Lockean theory have the potential to undermine the entire point of property. Property becomes a value asserted onto others by the privileged. It becomes a means of externalizing costs.

Any meaningful discussion about the merits of property is also an argument for equality of authority and against privilege.
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