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    When labor is mixed with objects held in common, the indi... — Carmelics
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    Supports→An individual's property rights expand to include previously unowned goods when that individual's labor is mixed with those goods.

    When labor is mixed with objects held in common, the individual's ownership of that labor extends to the object.

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    An individual's property rights expand to include previously unowned goods when ...Each individual owns their own labor.Rights to control follow from ownership of what is inseparably joined.

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    Consider a more formal version of Locke’s famous argument. Individuals own their own bodies and labor—i.e., they are self-owners. When an individual labors on an unowned object, her labor becomes infused in the object and for the most part, the labor and the object cannot be separated. It follows that once a person’s labor is joined with an unowned object, assuming that individuals exclusively own their body and labor, rights to control are generated. The idea is that there is an expansion of ri

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