re: #927 Obdicut

The capital I use to create my business is mine. It is mine because I have brought it into existence through the use of my body. My body is mine, therefore the produce of my body is mine as well. The apple off the tree example is a good one. If I pick an apple from a tree in from land that is unowned, whose apple is it? Reasonable people will reply that this apple is mine. No one else has laid claim to it and I have used my body to remove it from the tree. I have mixed my labor with this thing from nature so that it may now be consumed. No one else has a right to this thing which my body has altered from it’s natural state. Hopefully you agree up to this point. If it is my apple, then I have a right to command this apple as I have a right to command my body. The same applies for my business. I could choose to hoard my money and not open the business. You would be fine with this, but if I say I want to use my wealth in a way you don’t agree, you claim to have some right in the decision making process. From where is your right to make decisions about my property derived?