MOB RULE I’m not a Randian, but this quote via Libertarianism.org is worth shari

MOB RULE

I’m not a Randian, but this quote via Libertarianism.org is worth sharing:

“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort … is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.” – Ayn Rand

But institutionalizing private property rights appears to take a mob as well. and a disciplined and self interested mob at that. And once created, those private property rights cannot be held without the mob. So some group must forcibly create private property rights by prohibiting familial, tribal, or state property rights that maintain property as a commons. (A militia appears to be a mandatory requirement for maintaining private property rights.)

Now, once any group that succeeds in institutionalizing private property rights within a territory, they may have made some redistribution of earnings per share warranted. That’s how our classical ancestors saw it. And It may be true that the purpose of government is to allow us to concentrate capital on common investments while prohibiting involuntary transfer of that capital via privatization – that’s what shareholder agreements do. Shareholder agreements are quantifiable systems that allow for exclusion, and constitutions and citizenship are non-quantifiable, and often avoid exclusion because of births and differing birth rates.

But even if some redistribution of earnings is warranted, that does not mean redistribution is the purpose of creating the institution of private property. It means only that the proceeds from increases in productivity must be redistributed to shareholders, rather than consumed by the interests of the administration.

Property, from the most individual to the most common, is instituted by mobs who apply violence. Aristocratic egalitarianism (libertarianism) evolved to create individual property rights out of its own self interest. is simply an accident.