This is exactly the kind of problem that framing your ethical system in terms of &quot;rights&quot; tends to obscure (I&#x27;m more of a utilitarian). I think that you are morally justified in stealing to keep yourself from starving, and at the same time, every individual land owner (if they obtained their land by legitimate means) is morally justified in not hiring you to work for them. There doesn&#x27;t need to be a moral winner and moral loser in every situation.<p>I only support property &quot;rights&quot; because I think they lead to better overall welfare in the world-that-is. If in some future state of the world they turn out to be harmful on net, then I have no qualms with saying that we should scrap them.