| | Property is, and the [[Supreme Court]] has held, an extension of a person's [[labor]]. The [[value]] of a [[person]]'s labor is stored up in property. Much labor is consumed in the process of labor, or disappears in the instant of its production. Property, other than land, is unconsumed labor stored up in [[value added]] useful goods, improvements, or vendible commodity. In the normal functioning of the economic system, the worker sells their labor, using the unconsumed produce of other people's labor ("working capital" or what [[Marxist]]s call "the means of production") for which they are paid in money and relinquish any future claims over the value added produce of their labor. | | Property is, and the [[Supreme Court]] has held, an extension of a person's [[labor]]. The [[value]] of a [[person]]'s labor is stored up in property. Much labor is consumed in the process of labor, or disappears in the instant of its production. Property, other than land, is unconsumed labor stored up in [[value added]] useful goods, improvements, or vendible commodity. In the normal functioning of the economic system, the worker sells their labor, using the unconsumed produce of other people's labor ("working capital" or what [[Marxist]]s call "the means of production") for which they are paid in money and relinquish any future claims over the value added produce of their labor. |