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RE: Are We Forced To Participate In Capitalism?

in #capitalism8 years ago (edited)

Nobody owes anybody else extracted or finished resources. These require inputs by others. But, we are all owed access to raw resources for our basic survival. This access to raw resources for self-sustainment is the ultimate litmus test for the presence of exit rights in any system. If we are not free to opt out of any given system and forge our own way from the lands unprocessed resources then we are by omission being forced to submit to a system we dont like and want nothing to do with.

John Locke thought of this an thus formed what has since been coined the Lockean Proviso, which states "whilst individuals have a right to homestead private property from nature by working on it, they can do so only "...at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others"." From Wikipedia.

Where this property rights ethic is adhered to there will always be unclaimed and unprocessed raw resources available to those who wish to exit the system. Where this is denied there is a systemic initiation of force.