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Re:The Rent Seeking Economy by eli_gottlieb on Monday April 15, 2013 @03:22AM (#5550223)
I am a pretty extreme libertarian (kind of a nutter) and keep getting worse at it, but the reason that argument is flawed is that it assumes anyone can own electromagnetic radiation frequency. It is in the same realm as owning wavelengths of visible light. It is a government construct, like patents and copyright, that have no natural scarcity to them, but has scarcity and ownership artificially implied, enforced through violence of law.

So are coal and land and money. All property is a government construct. Stop pretending otherwise.

Re:The Rent Seeking Economy by zanny on Monday April 15, 2013 @05:43AM (#5550584)
I only support the violent maintenance of a singular kind of ownership, which is of scarce goods and resources which can not be replicated at, or at near, no cost, and whose transferral requires the giver lose while the receiver gains.

It is why I consider myself libertarian and not anarchist. Besides the fact I also think, like how Communism turned out, what we think in theory and what we do in practice are in conflict because people are still human and often do, even in selfish terms, illogical things.