Comments on: Scarcity – Does it Prove Intellectual Property is Unjustified?

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By: dbhalling

dbhalling — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:58:22 +0000

The point is that scarcity does exists in the creation and distribution of ideas (inventions). So IP law is not creating scarcity. The creation of ideas takes research facilities, researchers, research equipment, etc. all of which are subject to scarcity. If there were no cost associated with the distribution of ideas, then we would not need teachers, professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers. You pose a false choice. If we could reshape reality so there was no scarcity of food or other goods, then no one would want to impose a false scarcity. But both tangible and intangible property is subject to scarcity.

By: Renegade Division

Renegade Division — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:09:43 +0000

Well the problem here is that we have property rights in tangible commodities. You cannot say for certainty that property rights came into existence through the right of man to own himself and his labor OR through the scarcity theory.

If you look at a primitive men when they first discovered agriculture and they settled down then do you really think when one man took the wheat of another man(the first case of theft), the man who was robbed really made a hue and cry about being devoid of his natural rights of ownership of his labor, or did he make a case on the grounds that if the thief takes what he grew then he will be devoid of enjoying that property.

In fact once the idea was well accepted that property rights must be respected otherwise the owner of a property will not be able to enjoy its fruits, it can be easily seen that the idea became accepted that a man owns his body and the fruits of his labor. He owns it because otherwise he wouldn’t be able to enjoy the fruits of his labor.

On the other hand the idea that in our society we just thought of ‘natural rights of owning your labor’ sounds quite weird(unless you can put them in a better way).

And I always ask the question, would you support property rights if there were no tangible commodities in this world(if we could just copy food from each other), would you still support a framework where a man could exclude others from enjoying his labor? Would you really support creation of scarcity for the sake of labor rights where there exists none?

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