“imaginary property”
This is something that sticks in my craw, so I’ll zero in on it. What property isn’t “imaginary”? Real, material, physical, tactile stuff, I’d guess you say. Well, leaving aside for the moment all the immaterial things you can own without which there’d be no civilization, let’s take it as given that you can only own physical things. Does that somehow make property less imaginary? Hell no.
Property is about the relationship between you and your things. Not the physical relationship, either. If it were, we wouldn’t need the law, as Might would determine ownership. Your car, your land, your whatever would cease to be yours once you weren’t touching it. But that’s not the case. Property exists because we imagine it to be yours even when you’re not in possession of it.
In summation, all property is imaginary.
Real property obeys the Pauli exclusion principle. Once a real thing exists in this instance of a universe, when held 100% by one it is not held by another.
And btw, your post is an exemplary mini-essay. Very Marxist!
Ignore the things, recast property as relationship. The old “make absolute things relative” transform.
Excellent!
But this world ain’t Marxist. It’s real.