[ExI] Homelessness (was Re: Social right to have a living)

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Jul 11 20:28:03 UTC 2011


On 7/11/2011 2:48 PM, Stefano Vaj wrote:

>>> ... libertarians accept that shareholders in private corporations touch
>> >  dividends, possibly very high dividends, even when they do absolutely
>> >  nothing...
>> >
>> >  Shareholders are doing something.  They are keeping their money in the
>> >  company in which they are shareholders.
>
> What would prevent us from consider citizens as "shareholders" of
> their own political community? After all, States were established
> through conquest, and they still own assets...

This is precisely the position advanced by Robert Heinlein in his early 
political and writing work.**

Damien Broderick

**then he married an ardent Republican



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