Can I fence off an arbitrarily large area of unowned land and claim it as new property? |
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This scheme is Otsuka's response to Locke's proviso governing the appropriation of unowned resources. |
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This is acceptable to Nozick since untalented people would have starved anyway had the land remained unowned. |
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Arguably, a clear and straightforward theory of how an unowned resource comes legitimately to be owned had to wait till Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. |
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For example, it is far from clear how much labour is required to turn any given unowned object into a piece of private property. |
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Remember, though, that if you come up with a new agreement, for it to generate value as quickly as the Internet itself did, it needs to be open, unowned, and for everyone. |
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The whole continent is unowned and has no permanent population, and as such it offers a more complete form of escape than anywhere else on the planet. |
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Any player who lands on an unowned property may buy it, but, if he or she lands on a property owned by another player, rent must be paid to that player. |
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And when he died later that year, we stayed on, largely, I think, out of a sense of duty to this strange unowned inheritance, a mere tenancy at a place everything encouraged us to think of as ours. |
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On Delany's account, the effect of the Fugitive Slave Law, at least as Judge McLean interprets it, is to subject all unowned black persons to the domination of all white persons. |
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The principal source of today's alienation is not a ruling class but a social process dominated by bureaucratic institutions that have transcended traditional concepts of ownership-that are unowned. |
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Water companies may convert unowned water to an owned good, by distributing it through drinking water systems, or selling it in bottles as mineral, filtered or purified water. |
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