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by jjn2009 1751 days ago
There is a lot more nuance to law/regulation than “if you don't like my draconian privacy and/or freedom reducing laws then you deserve no property rights!”
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It seems as financial tools mature they inevitably gain a certain critical mass of rules. My guess is some are essential to a functioning society.
Property rights are not possible without a monopoly on force. Property rights are inherently broken because it means someone is giving you rights over some __property__ that you're defending with some arbitrary rules.
Not really. You surely know what the mob thinks about property and privacy rights.

100% of intellectual property rights requires a government. It's not really a right. It's manufactured. Patents user to he called monopolies. It takes a government to enforce such a regime.

Without a government there's no agreed upon, or forced upon, authority to prevent violence.