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Today's Minnaar Art:
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#01780 watercolor and India ink on paper 5.5" × 7.25"
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Daily Zap Giveaway
Good Morning! Today I am giving away 10,000 sats to one Lucky Winner. Simply repost to enter and the winner will be announced tomorrow. Good Luck!
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Thinking about this too. Maybe we should do more citizen reporting on the things that matter to us individually. Creating more original content and less reposting
The Morality of Ownership
Man, by his nature, is entirely dependent on property. He occupies time and space and must consume in order to live.
Two men cannot occupy the same space at the same time therefore they must respect each other’s natural boundary in order to coexist. This respect is the basis for morality.
Property is either owned or unowned. It can be improved, unimproved or even damaged.
Three conditions are necessary to make ownership possible:
1. a recognized claim (before it can be claimed by someone it must first be valued by that person)
2. a recognized boundary
control (which comes with authority & responsibility)
3. A man’s property is merely an extension of his person as it is the product of his life energy. Property can also be acquired through trade or gift.
A moral person recognizes this fact and he respects the other man’s property.
When a man imposes his control on another man’s property, he is making the other man his slave to some degree, for he is seeking to substitute his control over the other man in place of the control that nature has provided the other man over himself.
Stolen property is not considered property of the possessor. It is considered plunder.
Owned yet unused land is a misnomer. All owned land is used for some purpose whether it be for preservative reasons, speculative reasons, or simply for the personal enjoyment of the owner.
The degree of prosperity in a given community is dependent upon the degree of moral understanding in that community.
Morality allows us to advance beyond having “the ability to protect” as the deciding factor for ownership because a moral person respects the boundaries of another person’s property – even when the owner is not there to protect it.
Human well-being is improved enormously when people recognize and respect the moral concept of ownership because we can focus our resources on production versus protection.
The more we can produce, the more value we can create and trade. This results in a higher standard of living for all.
Source:
Economicsandliberty.wordpress.com
Yes, I am no fan of The Guardian. Nevertheless, one must be careful with whom one makes his protectors lest they become his jailers
What is Economics?
Economics: A Science of Means
“Economics is sometimes thought of as a very dry and dismal subject dealing with dusty tomes of statistics about material goods and services. Economics is not a dry subject. It is not a dismal subject. It is not about statistics. It is about the human life. It is about the ideas that motivate human beings. It is about how men act from birth until death. It is about the most important and interesting drama of all – human action.
“The main objective of economics is to substitute consistently correct ideas and actions for the contradictory ideas and actions inherent in popular fallacies…
“We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas.”
– Percy L. Greaves, Jr., Understanding the Dollar Crisis
The Art of Economics
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
– Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson
Economics and Liberty: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Economic freedom (property rights) and political freedom (human rights) are indivisible. They are merely two sides of the same coin – for you cannot have one without the other.
What is Liberty?
Freedom is based upon the principle of self ownership. It consists of every individual having the inalienable right to his or her own life, liberty, and justly-acquired property. Every man owns his own life and, therefore, has the right to do anything he wishes with that life, so long as he does not forcibly interfere with the life of any other person. Freedom is self-control, not license to impose on others.
Man can achieve his highest potential only if he is free. In order to be free he must have Free Agency. Free Agency is the freedom to choose, the freedom to succeed, the freedom to fail, and the freedom to learn from his mistakes. If man wishes to have Free Agency he must also respect the Free Agency of his fellow man. Free Agency does not absolve man from responsibility for his own actions.
Economics and Liberty: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Economic freedom (property rights) and political freedom (human rights) are indivisible. They are merely two sides of the same coin – for you cannot have one without the other.
