PHIL1070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Consumerism, Child Mortality
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Second treatise of government chapter v ( 25, 27-31, 33-34, 36-38, 45-48) Locke believes that property rights come from the idea that people who work on land and increase its value come to own it especially when there isn"t enough land or property to go around. Money complicates locke"s idea of property because originally people had the incentives only to use enough property to provide for themselves and their families. The invention of money has created the ability to transport value through time (so rather than creating only perishable goods people could make more) and people began to desire and create more than they needed at one time. Locke explains that when someone who originally only made goods they needed will be incentivized to make more because he now has the use and value of money to enlarge his possessions (locke 29).
