Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.


The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self (ed. North Atlantic Books, 2013) - ISBN: 9781583945377

Charles Eisenstein Quotes

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have...

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have...

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have...

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have...