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72. The absence of property rights won't make you free either

What it would do though is insure that everyone is equal (equally miserable), because everyone would be equally dependent on whatever entity gets to decide who keeps what property and what property is OK to just take. BTW, you never described who would do that or how it would be done. People in that state of dependency are anything but free. The absence of property rights would also insure low productivity and a low standard of living for everyone because without the assurance you could keep the fruits of your own labors, what would be the motivation to strive or work hard for anything?

You strike me as young and very naive. It's a shame you weren't born 50 years earlier than you were. You could have emigrated to the Soviet Union and I'm sure you would have loved the place - no property rights. You would still have had to deal with the rule of the strong and the power of the arrogant. They were called the party bosses.