A loan is renting money. Patents and copyright are artificial state constructs to grant monopoly rental powers. You never &quot;own&quot; IP you buy from someone on physical media, you are buying a license to use it, or in other words renting it.<p>Rents by the OP&#x27;s definition are the kind of revenue sources you wouldn&#x27;t have in near-statelessness, which means it takes state bias to create them. Without a state it would be hard to lay claim to vast swathes of land peacefully, and homesteading would be abundant on unused land. Even in a simplified state model that offers courts to protect property rights with, you couldn&#x27;t have the widespread real estate market manipulation we can simply observe with how out of control land prices have risen in the past twenty years.