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    When a person labors on a previously unowned object, subj... — Carmelics
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    When a person labors on a previously unowned object, subject to certain provisos, that object becomes the person's private property.

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    • 1.A person owns their own labor.
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    • 2.Laboring on an unowned object mixes one's labor with that object.
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    • 3.When one's owned labor is mixed with something unowned, the unowned thing becomes owned.
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    • 1.Mixing something owned with something unowned does not straightforwardly transfer ownership to the unowned thing.
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    • 2.If I pour my can of tomato juice into the ocean, I lose my juice rather than gain the ocean — ownership does not aggregate by mixture.
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    • 3.Locke's labor-mixing metaphor is an evocative image, not a principled criterion for how property rights arise from physical contact.
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    • 1.Original appropriation of unowned resources worsens the situation of others by excluding them from what was previously open to all.
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    • 2.Locke's own proviso — that appropriation is legitimate only if 'enough and as good' is left for others — is systematically violated in a world of finite and fully claimed resources.
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    • 3.A proviso that cannot be satisfied in practice undermines rather than licenses the broader theory of property acquisition it was meant to constrain.
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    The most famous account of how unilateral original acquisition is possible remains Locke’s labor theory. According to Locke, when people work on previously unowned objects, subject to certain provisos, they turn those objects into their private property. The precise nature of Locke’s argument, the relation between labor and acquisition, as well as the nature of the provisos, are hotly contested. The most famous interpretation, again, seeks to ground property in the (prior) rights of self-ownersh
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