Re:The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of th...
by bjl on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:01AM
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Left-libertarians definitely find property law coercive.
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Re:The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of th...
by ticviking on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:37PM
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Turns out if you're consistent in applying the NAP then homesteading becomes illegitimate as any exclusive claim on land which was previously free for anyone to make use of is an act of force against literally every other person in the area.
Re:The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of th...
by Nursie on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:48PM
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Yup, the homesteading principle is interesting and workable iff there is infinite land of the same sort of quality easily available to everyone.
IIRC the guy that came up with it agreed with that reading on it!