As part of my Dunbar's State project, I realized I needed a theory of Property. A human scale society needs some idea of what someone can reasonably own, why, and what practical forms that ownership can take.
The initial reason I realized I needed such a theory was for colonization purposes: The Dunbar project envisions a science fictional situation where new worlds and land could come into being: the project is to try and follow in the traditions of Starship Troopers and Start Trek of imagining a possible/good future.
A frontier and thus unclaimed lands would thus require a reasonable method to the formation of new States and property rights: what does it take to claim mars? One flag would seem insufficient, and if ownership of Mars could be established by a mere act of congress, makes all property merely a will of government.
I determined it was also important to the establishment of taxation rights, the degree regulatory authority is justified, such as the regulation of monopolies, and general collective action such as democratic impositions, and mechanisms to stand against accumulation of power.
When I started looking, the first thing I found was the Labor theory of Property.
This seems to be roughly the natural law foundation of a theory of Property, as outlined by John Locke:
This, the seeming beginning, seems a good place to hopefully start a discussion on a theory of Property.
The initial reason I realized I needed such a theory was for colonization purposes: The Dunbar project envisions a science fictional situation where new worlds and land could come into being: the project is to try and follow in the traditions of Starship Troopers and Start Trek of imagining a possible/good future.
A frontier and thus unclaimed lands would thus require a reasonable method to the formation of new States and property rights: what does it take to claim mars? One flag would seem insufficient, and if ownership of Mars could be established by a mere act of congress, makes all property merely a will of government.
I determined it was also important to the establishment of taxation rights, the degree regulatory authority is justified, such as the regulation of monopolies, and general collective action such as democratic impositions, and mechanisms to stand against accumulation of power.
When I started looking, the first thing I found was the Labor theory of Property.
This seems to be roughly the natural law foundation of a theory of Property, as outlined by John Locke:
Sect. 27
. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other men: for this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.
This, the seeming beginning, seems a good place to hopefully start a discussion on a theory of Property.