Freedom of Disposition Interference with this freedom of disposition is, in the final analysis, interference with your right to life. What's more, if you find that this robbery persists, if you are regularly deprived of the fruits of your labor, you lose interest in laboring. Suppose the freedom of disposition is taken away from you entirely. Your interest in yourself also drops because you sense that without the right of property you are not much different from the other living things in the barn. It is silly, then, to prate of human tights being superior to property rights, because the tight of ownership is traceable to the tight to life, which is certainly inherent in the human being.
Property rights are in fact human tights.
A society built around the denial of this fact is, or must become, a slave society - although the socialists describe it differently. It is a society in which some produce and others dispose of their output. The laborer is not stimulated by the prospect of satisfying his desires but by fear of punishment. When his ownership is not interfered with, when he works for himself, he is inclined to develop his faculties of production because he has unlimited desires. There is no end of desires the human being can conjure up, and will work for, provided he feels reasonably sure that his labor will not be in vain.