Of course it's simplistic - in three lines it has to be simplistic. I'm talking about an attitude, in which "ownership" is about things you can use and look after, not about taking advantage of other people.

There is a qualitative difference between "simplistic" and "simple". Three lines might imply the latter, but has nothing to do with the former. Nice dodge though, for those whose eyes are off the ball.

Piers,

All due respect, but your last definition makes even less pragmatic sense that the previous. So everybody owns everything, but we don't need any organization to sort this thing out? So it isn't government that makes midchuck's Froggy Bottom mine, it is midchuck's....what? ...generosity?

And again, it doesn't address the fact that most business is not developed to enslave workers -- most are developed around a desirable product or service. If you don't want those products or services nobody is requiring that you avail yourself of them, but history has shown that most people are willing to participate.