Common harvest, then why not common distribution?

"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."
Henry George (1839 – 1897)

If we are not responsible for providing for ourselves then the State must provide for us and we, in return do what is necessary to appease the State. If we do feel responsible for providing for ourselves then can there be a justification for preventing us from doing so?

If someone has insufficient natural resources of their own, then they will require the permission of a rent-seeker before that person is able to provide for themselves. Their existence relies on the approval of someone else... Is it right that a person would require the permission of another to survive, given that there are easily sufficient natural resources? This situation can only arise because of an imbalance in the distribution of natural resources such as land.

Unfair distribution of "property rights" results in some of the population having no choice but to be in servitude to those who have plentiful land.

If an excess of land is taxed by the State then this will serve to redress this inequality... The (marginal) value of land would be very different for each person, someone with land already would incur extra taxes with each acre of land purchased so to them it would be very expensive, for someone with less land it would be cheap.

Then the person selling their labour could pool their resources (to farm more efficiently) and have a stake in the outcome of their production... Each person would not only be selling their labour but negotiating a claim on the labour (and resources) of others.

If we need permission to improve our circumstances then "wage slave" must be an accurate description of our position. Our ability to provide for ourselves can only be removed by the so-called "property rights" of other people.



To earn money is to take property from the State... Once property rights are established the State (to survive) must protect your assets and so has more work to do and is thus weakened. An anarchist should earn money...

26th January 2009

Work enables others to have free time

Not everyone can be idle (assuming there are some jobs no one likes to do) which means that at some point we must each pay for the time that we are idle. It is when there is no job that is not considered by someone to be leisure that we are entirely idle... (28th Jan'09)