How does the mind deceive us! Let me count some of its infinite ways.
It was a painter, Goya, who pinpointed the problem. He saw that "Dreams of reason produce monsters."
And it was my father who gave me the key to unlock some of the related mysteries. He offered this rule: "Every excess is a defect."
Private property is a very good thing. It was Saint Thomas Aquinas who made an exhaustive and convincing list of the benefits of private property. Very little has been added to that list — except an error.
The error consists in believing that the benefits of private property extend without limits, even to cover the privatization of common property.