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 one of my heroes, Ludwig von Mises

in his book from 1922 titled ‘SOCIALISM’

he uncovered the root of the argument

he started the book by talking about HAVING

i will use the word OWNERSHIP 
 he says
there are only 2 ways to own things
1- be the 1st one to get and claim it (the american indian)
2- or use violence to take it from somebody who already has it.  and that’s life 
 all ownership derives from OCCUPATION and VIOLENCE

human beings are always at WAR. we want PEACE

so how do we get PEACE? 

that’s where LAW comes in 
 I wanna play some congas https://image.nostr.build/142d277ad0b89448e19e87bb22d8a7ddee021130b66c29a9497175b30f20cc12.jpg  
 Laws of which kings empire?
I’m not sure those standards are gonna hold to violate creators privilege.

😭 https://image.nostr.build/1d133104fdaf56a05db4c89f00f8d815294f21751de764dcf30d1c35dc8ffeb9.jpg  
 I don’t need to justify my actions nor standards.

Because?! https://image.nostr.build/965dfe39eccf7ba49d0f1d5820a6a77c8db5b44143026cb850d54b1dc1f7b2b7.jpg  
 we want feudalism, violence and war to stop
so we created LAW 
 we created the magna carta
the UK treaties
then the constitution
the bill of rights 
 We didn’t create now, did we?
😂 
 but those laws were written after ownership was decided
so a lot of people feel that legal rights are time-honored. illegality 
 even though the constitution is more than 200 years old
many are still talking about indigenous rights
many are still talking about racial injustice
and the earnings gap between men and women

the fact is that slavery existed when the constitution was written 
 in many places women and blacks couldn't own property or vote

and we all agree these things were wrong. PERIOD 
 the question is: does that make a difference today?

if the distribution of wealth was wrong 250/500 years ago: does that make things unfair today?

do we really need to pierce that law and change things?