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CHAPTER 2 FREEDOM
surplus belongs. Those who hold that private property rights grant them the
right to keep that surplus are obviously in disagreement with those who hold
that the surplus goods belong to those who do not produce them.
There are only two methods by which the surplus of individuals A, B,
and C can be divided: either with their consent or without it. Either the
property belongs to those who produce it or it doesn't.
Presume that the four individuals, D, E, F, and G, ask A, B, and C to
divide their surplus voluntarily, and the latter refuse. Does that refusal grant
the right to D, E, F and G to take the goods from them?
If property rights have any meaning, the answer must surely be in the
negative. Does the right to property include the right to protect it from the
plundering acts of those who come to take it by force? Does an individual
have the right to protect his property against the acts of another individual?
Does the individual have the right to protect his property against the acts of
a group of individuals? Does the group have the right to protect their
property against the acts of another group?
Realizing that the property of the productive A, B, and C cannot be
taken from them by force, it behooves the less productive to find another way
to acquire the surplus. Presume that they develop a new strategy. They call
a meeting to discuss the question of the surplus, and all seven individuals
attend. The question of how to handle the surplus is discussed and then acted
upon, allowing the majority to decide how to divide the property. In this
case, D, E, F, and G vote to divide the property equally, and A, B and C vote
against it.
Do D, E, F and G have the right to vote away the property rights of the
minority. Does it make it right because all were given an equal opportunity
to express their opinion?
Does it make it right if they call the meeting a government? Does it make
it right if the majority says that whatever the majority decides will be what
the entirety will do? Does the minority have any rights?
If the majority votes to take the minority's property, what is it called?
It is called a Democracy!
Next, presume that the majority is able to create a government to take
the surplus from the producers, and that the producers decide among
themselves to only produce what they consume the next year, in this case 500
units apiece. Would the minority have mat right?
That means that A, B, and C will only produce what they consumed the
previous year, or 500 units apiece. The remainder of the people continue to
produce what they did the year before. The figures for the second year will be
as follows:
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