"Why Capitalism?"

1 - Capitalism

Capitalism is the economic philosophy in which the use of resources and the circulation of wealth is optimized through the trade of private property. 

2 - Private Property

Private Property is what you create out of the what is provided by nature.  If you didn't make it, you don't own it.

3 - Private Property vs. Public Property

If private property is what you make, public property is everything else, everything that is imparted to us by nature, collectively and without prejudice.

4 - Land Ownership

Air is public property.  The ocean is public property.  What is so different about land, except that boundaries can be drawn and enforced on it?  No one can claim to have made the earth, to be responsible for its existence, so how can any claim of land ownership be justified?  Land, sea, and sky are all part of what we are given when we are born on this planet, and any claim of exclusive ownership of any of these is morally indefensible.

5 - Origins of Land Ownership

Nomadic hunter-gatherer cultures did not consider land a thing that could be owned.  Only with the advent of agriculture did human beings make permanent settlements, and start to claim the right of land ownership.  Since then, this thing which was originally everyone's has been divided into ours and theirs.  Any claim of land ownership boils down to, "I was here first, so it's mine," and backing it up with violence.

6 - Conquest and Land Ownership

This applies to recent history (the last couple hundred years) as the colonial conquest of most of the world by european seafaring empires.  A case in point would be the so-called "New World", where one culture forced it's idea of land ownership on the indigenous culture, which didn't practice it.  Originally, this entire continent was inhabited by the Indians who were killed or expelled (mostly killed) so that it could be claimed for the victors.

7 - Land Ownership and Private Property

In order for land ownership to be consistent with the idea of private property, we would have to give it back to the Indians we stole it from, because it was theirs first.

            Ex.  If I kill some people and take their money, that's a crime.

                        But if I kill some people and take their continent, then I win.

8 - Land as Wealth

All material wealth in society is based on land ownership, either in the form of real estate, or as resources gleaned from the land, or as yield from agriculture, or product of industry (which occupies land).  Land is ultimately the source of all material wealth.

9 - Land as Public Property

If we agree that land, supplying all material wealth, is public property, then it follows that the wealth it provides should also be public.  Instead, land, along with everything else of value is in the possession of an increasingly smaller proportion of the world's population, at the expense of more and more people, with this inequitable balance of power defended by still more destructive weapons.  That 1% of the world's population which controls more than half its wealth is throwing everything they have at maintaining the status quo, be it from their economic, political, military or ideological arsenal.

10  - Capitalism

A capitalist economy based on land ownership is based on theft and the threat of violence.

If we acknowledge that everyone has a right the world's wealth, then egalitarian reform as a matter of principle is self-evident.