PROPERTARIANISM IS DESCRIPTIVE. (Eli Harman) —“Legalism is prescriptive. Prope

PROPERTARIANISM IS DESCRIPTIVE.

(Eli Harman)

—“Legalism is prescriptive. Propertarianism is descriptive. We can criticize institutions by showing them to be unsustainably parasitic, dysgenic, consumptive, degenerative, or uncompetitive (existentially impossible over the long term.) We can describe institutions that are not degenerative but are productive, progressive, durable, anti-fragile, competitive (existentially possible.)

We do not prescribe the latter, we merely prefer them. We note that the former will always tend to fall and the latter to rise.”—Eli Harman