Related: own Information is not property because, being non-rivalrous, it has no 'proper' owner aside from initial privacy. Any attempts to constrain it's use beyond initial privacy are invalid, including denying "at cost" access to it's sources. In contrast, ownership of physical things is important for the stability of privacy and the freedom to exclude. Property may be: * Personal: Single-owner controls the sources of his OWN objectives. Sometimes called 'Private'. * Proprietary: Joint-owners control the sources of the objectives of OTHERS. Sometimes called 'Private' or 'Privatization'. All capitalist corporations and any supposed 'representative' government is proprietary because only a select few control and realistic divisibility (secession) is disallowed. * Public: Joint-owners control the sources of their OWN objectives. Real Public property is mostly confined to very small groups because these organizations become proprietary as more humans join when the new ownership is also controlled by the originators. Joint ownership can remain public even while scaling if the continuously distributed as it should be. We can price above cost is not user investment. One way human beings differ from other organisms in our notion of physical property ownership as a socially binding "agreement" that pits not just that owner, but the entire community against those that would otherwise take our belongings or occupy our land just because they are stronger or more vicious. But private property law is not "dynamic" enough for the collective ownership we use to trade labor for specialization. Property law is a bit too powerful when it comes to resources that would be more effectively held "in common". By "in common" I'm referring to the purpose of either of what is traditionally thought of as a "public utility" or as a "corporation". government or incorporation Cut from MySpace.com/patware: Profit at each trade treated as consumer investment holds an economy in a kind of tension that drives price toward cost and allows unemployment (leisure) to safely approach zero while also removing the externality of the general form of Usury. Usury is not just high interest on money; it is the misappropriation of profit designed to perpetuate consumer dependence. Profit is the difference between consumer price and owner costs, where those costs include investments, worker wages, maintenance, etc.. Profit is not needed by society, it is simply a measure of an Object consumer's plea for growth, so should always be treated as their own investment (they are the one that just paid it after all) toward more Physical Sources for future production of more of that kind of Object. This continuous distribution creates perfected competition and direct democracy, therefore eliminating the faulty reward (Usury) which otherwise drives corporations to invert abundance through artificial scarcity.