In my political circles quite a few people, both now and in the past, defend the right to private property, to individual ownership, based on the idea that whatever one earns – or creates, or makes, or produces – surely is one's own property and others have no right to it. And up to a point this carries conviction but it doesn't at all go far enough. There is a lot that one owns that one hadn't earned, made, created, produced or the like. It still is one's private property and no one is
On "I earned it, it's mine!"
