【金句】Friedrich Hayek - What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is...

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What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of production were vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of “society” as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us.

我們這代人遺忘了的是，私有財產制度不僅對財產所有者，對非財產所有者來說也幾乎同樣重要，它是自由的最重要保證。只有因為生產手段的控制權分散在許多獨立行動的人手中，沒有人對我們擁有完全的權力，我們作為個人才能決定如何處置自己。如果所有的生產手段都集中在一個人手中，無論是名義上屬於「社會」整體，還是獨裁者的手裡，誰行使這種控制權，就對我們擁有完全的權力。