https://doctorow.medium.com/adventure-capitalism-c2dc07c37479
"The 17th century philosopher John Locke is a key grifter thinkfluencer, and
his “labor theory of property” is key to understanding the libertarian
mind-palace.
https://locusmag.com/2019/03/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius/
Locke says that property arises when the empty, unimproved natural places are
mixed with human labor. You own your body, so you own its labor and the fruits
of its labor. No one owns an empty place, so when you influse your body’s labor
into a place, it becomes yours.
There’s only one teensy problem with this: there are no empty places. Locke’s
empty places always —
always — turn out to be either a commons, or a place
that colonized people are slaughtered for.
In other words, “a place no one is using” can be “a place everyone is using” (a
commons) or “a place brown people are using” (a colony — often also a place
held as a commons). The labor theory of property always involves some mix of
genocide and enclosure."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
