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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
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Subject: Re: Politics and Ethics--Socialism, Libertarianism, and Capitalism
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 12:18:47 EST
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> >Carnes: Why do individuals have the right to own the means of production?
>
> Sykora: Perhaps, those individuals who create the means of production
> should have the (transferrable) right to own them, at least those means
> that are created from non-scarce resources.

Berman: Who creates the means of production?  People who provide labor,
people who provide expertise of people who provide capital?  How you
split the contribution?  (I skip the remark about non-scarce resources
here).  I claim that the situation is sufficiently messy that it is
impossible the formulate an always aplicable first-principle.