• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Cool. I’m going to need your car too.

    For what is is worth, I looked up personal vs private property, and it seems that the actual distinction isn’t usage, it’s portability. So, you would have a right to your toothbrush, car, and money, but your home, business, or farm would not belong to you. So if I wanted your house, I could reasonable make a claim that I needed it and “take” it from you. (Although it can’t technically be taking since you don’t have any ownership, and very few “rights” to the house.)

    So, let’s follow that up with a question.

    How hard are you going to work on maintaining or improving your home, if you know that someone else, who can’t live in their home because they didn’t maintain it, can just make a claim on your home, and have a reasonable chance of getting it?

    The system you’re describing doesn’t make everyone free of economic violence, it forces everyone to be serfs for one giant entity (the country).

    While you’re reading up on Marxism, and personal vs private property, go ahead and read up on what a strawman is, because you’ve accused me twice of building a strawman without merit, and I have doubts that you genuinely understand the concept.

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      Sorry, but I am using my car 🤷‍♂️

      Can you link to that definition? Because portability is definitely not the distinction between private and personal property. Usage is.

      What follows is a pure strawman argument, because when you are using your house it is personal property and can not just be claimed by someone else.

      I know perfectly well what a strawman argument is, and you have been doing it here the entire time. You must have extremely poor reading comprehension if you think I ever claimed anything of what you have been arguing against here.

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          4 months ago

          That definition (in the subsection about political theory only) seems fine, but it says little about how to practically determine ownership of personal property. The commonly agreed method to do so is “regular usage”, as I have been repeating here many times over…

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            Who is commonly agreeing to this? What counts as “regular usage”? I regularly use the toilet at work. Would it become my personal property?

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              The various people that have developed this political & economic theory on which for example the definition on the Wikipedia page you linked is based on. This is literally something that has been discussed in detail for over 150 years now.

              And yes, you as an employee of a company would become a co-owner of that company, and therefore the toilet would be partially yours, but obviously not exclusively.

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                The various people that have developed this political & economic theory on which for example the definition on the Wikipedia page you linked is based on.

                The word “regular” appears 0 times I the article I linked. What did you read?

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                  I already said that the Wikipedia definition lacks the crucial detail about how to determine when something counts as personal property. But look it up yourself, there are entire books on the topic.