The distinction doesn&#x27;t look natural to me..<p>I don&#x27;t see why anyone should &quot;own&quot; natural resources, or beaches for instance. I understand that we all need a place to live and we want to own our personal possessions, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to me at all natural to extend this to mines, factories or huge tracts of lands on the other side of the planet, that you perhaps even never see. Maybe the scarcity of natural resources isn&#x27;t such a big deal unless you have people who simply own to much of it.<p>In the same vein, I agree that authors and inventors should be compensated for the efforts, but the copyrights and patents shouldn&#x27;t create more scarcity.