Ownership Of Land - A Deeply Flawed Concept?

[Isard]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

See - I think we are going nowhere here. You repeat your arguments. I can also repeat mine now. To "build a company" may take a lot of dedication and knowledge, but so does becoming a medical doctor or a professor. The fact is, that in this kind of economy, certain abilities as well as prior wealth are ranked a lot higher than other, much more productive skills when it comes to "making money". Someone who has money and some good luck or abstract knowledge of stock markets can make millions in days, while someone creating important knowledge or helping people will never get rich. To set such a huge difference in the value of different kinds of work is utterly insane and can only be kept up by a system of power that allows the one who already have to maintain that system by using their power, eventually also in very physical means by violence, to kepp it all going. To put it bluntly - I dont see that a person who builds a big company has any more right to getting a significantly higher revenue from it than the person building or maintaining the machines for that company. They have different sets of skills, both have learned them over years and invested a lot of time learning them and other would have no clue as to how to go about when faced with the respective problems - why would an economic skill be more worth than a mechanical? (This is of course just an example and one that is treated in existing cooperative companies in which the boss gets only marginally more pay than the mechanic who gets just a bit more than the janitor)

Greetings
Aurora

There isn't really too many ways for me to argue against "illegalizing success". And last I checked... Professions such as doctors usually are very, very well off in the world due to the amount of schooling they were required to achieve.

The only way you're going to achieve this, is by going up to somebody, taking something that is their property, their company, and giving it away to others. Now, this of course would have to be done through threats/force, because most people don't take too kindly to being robbed of their possessions. So you end up with a dictatorial government pretty much like Soviet Russia or China.

You cannot take what is not yours. That's that.

[redpaintednavi]

Originally Posted by Aihwa

The only way you're going to achieve this, is by going up to somebody, taking something that is their property, their company, and giving it away to others.

A company is really not owned by anyone. A company is a collective effort, even if it is one particular person who stared it. If the other persons who participate in this collective effort would just simply walk away then the owner or starter would just stand there unable to do anything and the company would dissappear.
Since a company in reality is a collective effort the revenues should be equally distributed among those who work in it