PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATIZATION
Year: 2026

Basically, something you can privatize becomes your private property.

A dog is a good example: if you've raised this dog with love and care, kept it well fed and sheltered: you have privatized that dog. It will follow you, find itself calmed by your presence, and come when you call.

A dog you do not know, and does not know you, will ignore or attack you. It is not privatized.

Inanimate objects follow the same principle: something that has become personalized to you, over time and through use, is privatized. The shoes that all your friends recognize as your shoes. The pen and notepad that is always with you. Your favorite shirt.

This understanding of private property, relies on your local community for verification of what is yours. No government, organization, or blockchain is required. Your family and friends know what is yours.

You also can't have a ton of stuff. The more tenuous your connection to something, with long periods of time between use, the less it has been privatized: the less it is yours. If someone else needs it, they can use it. And if they use it enough, they can even privitize it.

Your private property becomes the things you have on your person, the ground under your feet, the food you are eating, the air you breathe.

Hoarding is impossible, wealth requires re-definition, your relationships with others become your insurance of ownership.

Thievery becomes a true abomination: you are taking things that the victim relies on for everyday life.

The subversive element of this comprehension of private property should be obvious, so here I finish.

---fin---