Ownership

Ownership is the socially supported power to exclusively control and use for one's own purposes, that which is owned. Definitions of it are closely tied to definitions of wealth, private or public.

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It is claimed by some (principally among the political left), that the exclusiveness of the ownership relationship underlies much of the injustice in the world, and that the social protection of this exclusiveness can result in tyranny and oppression at both the individual and societal levels.

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Power: The concept of power has many senses, all of which imply control or force....

Wealth: Wealth usually refers to money and property. It is the abundance of objects of value and also the state of having accumulated these objects. The use of the word itself assumes some socially-accepted means of identifying objects, land, or money as "belonging to" someone, i.e. a broadly accepted notio...