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The Nature of Property | The Stephan Kinsella Series | Episode 2 (WiM216)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Dov Brilliantly Put a but Then Wut Property?

Property is the relationship of your agency to your body, and relationships we establish in the world with scarce resources. We use our bodies by directly controlling it, like our hands and our feet and our mouths and our heads. So overtime, we accumulate what you can call tools or means, like clothing or a spear,. And they become extensions of ourself, because we have to. That's how we extend our influence into the world. The word property tended to get the connotations that it has now, where people use the word property to refer to the thing that you have a property right in. Some economists do not see this as an actual ability to control things - but only if you think

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