Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person

Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by zer0tonin on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:40AM (#13994022)

>Why should people conform to your unusual position on property, as opposed to the mainstream one?

That's a nice fallacy you've got here, and that would imply that his opinion is actually uncommon around people who have studied the subject (spoiler : it's not).

>Personally, I quite like owning things that are mine.

Possession and property are not the same thing.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by ImSkeptical on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:46PM (#13997386)

If you interpret "property is violence" to mean that property is maintained by organizations willing to use violence - I.e. That something is "my property" because I can appeal to a police system who will help me defend, retain, or regain possession of it, then that's obviously true. I expect nobody disagrees with that. If that is the interpretation you're trying to defend then I have no objection beyond an arched eyebrow at something trivial being obfuscated to appear objectionable.

The interpretation I made, and challenged, is that property is violence. I.e. Owning things is violent towards other people.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by zer0tonin on Friday March 31, 2017 @07:17AM (#14002676)

Owning thing isn't violent but property is about a lot more than "owning things".

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