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    Collective ownership is necessary to promote the common i... — Carmelics
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    Collective ownership is necessary to promote the common interest and social unity.

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    • 1.Private property causes social divisiveness when some grieve exceedingly and others rejoice at the same happenings.
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    • 2.Collective ownership aligns individual interests with the common interest.
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    • 1.Aristotle argued in Politics II that collective ownership breeds neglect and conflict, as people care most for what is their own.
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    • 2.When no individual bears responsibility for shared resources, diffused accountability undermines rather than promotes the common interest.
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    • 3.Social unity grounded in shared private stakes (family, property, community) is historically more durable than unity imposed through collective ownership.
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    • 1.Hume and Smith demonstrated that the price mechanism under dispersed private ownership aggregates and coordinates individual interests without requiring unified collective control.
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    • 2.Hayek's knowledge problem shows that collective ownership concentrates decisions in agents who cannot possess the local, tacit knowledge needed to serve the common interest effectively.
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    The ancient authors speculated about the relation between property and virtue, a natural subject for discussion since justifying private property raises serious questions about the legitimacy of self-interested activity. Plato (Republic, 462b-c) argued that collective ownership was necessary to promote common pursuit of the common interest, and to avoid the social divisiveness that would occur ‘when some grieve exceedingly and others rejoice at the same happenings.’ Aristotle responded by arguin
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