“Curt : what property has Monsanto violated?”— Great question. 1) Monsanto is

—“Curt : what property has Monsanto violated?”—

Great question.

1) Monsanto is following the normal evolutionary cycle of organizations from specialists to generalists to guardians. All polities go through a phase where they pollute until they are wealthy enough to demand non-pollution due to consumer and citizen demand. The same is true of companies, and the same is true of families. All organizations create EXTERNALITIES during their youth and adolescence, and only in maturity do they produce positive externalities, and only in old age to they produce largely aesthetic externalities.

2) Monsanto is a biotechnology company that has found itself so successful that it has transformed into an industrial farming company, to an international shipping and distribution company, but has failed to transform into an ‘aesthetic’ company (as did the robber barons).

3) Monsanto commits an objective series of crimes:

a) social disruption (imposition of costs) on local people

b) the export of a nation’s wealth (the source of their profits really)

c) the bribery and corruption of developing country officials (you should see Ukraine)

d) externalizing immediate costs, and externalizing risk that they cannot perform restitution for through pollution

e) externalizing risk that they cannot warranty that they can perform restitution through GMO.

4) The current movement against Monsanto is a demand that they transform into a company that seeks social status for its aesthetics in exchange for preserving its markets.

5) This is the same process that religions use to control governments, the same process that people used to control warrior nobility, and the same process that consumers use to constrain companies, and the same process that women use to constrain alpha males: imposing opportunity costs and increasing transaction costs, by means of ridicule, gossip, shaming, and rallying.

PROPERTARIANISM

I would say that the reason that this problem exists is that people cannot appeal in court to a judge and thereby stop everything.