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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Rent control, etc.
Message-ID: <1863@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-May-84 21:43:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1863
Posted: Wed May 16 21:43:24 1984
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simard@loral.UUCP starts off by saying:

	"Certainly we all have rights to many things, (life,
	liberty...).  We DON'T	have an equivalent right to
	material wealth beyond that which we have earned.
	,Why?  Because all material good (including housing,
	subsistence and basic needs) exist only as the result 
	of someone's productive labor, and the 'right' to that 
	result belongs to the person whose labor produced it."

and then in the very next paragraph says:

	"a landlord owns the property s/he rents just the way you
	(possibly) own your automobile, or stereo system, or pocket 
	calculator."

now what am i to make of this?  in one sentence he says that you only
have rights to property that you have created, and on the other hand, he
says that landlords have right to their property, part of which (the
real estate), was created long before human beings ever existed.
anyone who claims to me that they have an inalienable right to some part
of the world had better be able to explain to me what they did to
produce it, and why it isn't part of the common heritage of mankind.
-- 
Larry Kolodney
(The Devil's Advocate)

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