Mar 22, 2020, 12:30 PM
—“What’s a Demonstrated interest?”—
Demonstrated interest without imposing upon others demonstrated interests is a fact.
Possession is a fact.
Property requires an an agreement.
Property rights require an institutional means of enforcement.
I bear costs of existing (Natural Interest).
I bear costs of acting (Demonstration)
I bear costs of acquiring goods, services, information, opportunity. (Demonstrated Interests)
I demonstrate an interest by bearing a cost on that which no other has born a cost to demonstrate an interest.
I consent to a portfolio of reciprocally insured property with others.
I consent or am forced to comply with an institutional means of reciprocally insuring property with others.
—“Does theft demonstrate an interest? (you still have to invest your time into committing a theft) The stolen good can be a possession as long as defended but it’s not property. If demonstrated interest is obtained by homesteading, can’t it can be obtained by any kind of investment and become possession – but when it’s not collectively insured, it doesn’t become property, and when it’s an imposition of cost on someone who had it collectively insured, it’s a prohibited possession?”—
Conflating cost and interest.
One bears a cost to demonstrate an interest.
One bears a cost but fails to demonstrate an interest.
So a thief has born a cost and taken possession but he has not demonstrated an interest.
But this is an excellent, and deep question that means you are getting to the first foundations.