jeremiah mitchell, Labor mixing is a much more general sense Chris. It doesn't matter if I think the labor you mixed with the land is valuable or not. What matters is that some labor was mixed with unowned land. This is, in my opinion, a non-arbitrary way of determining when land becomes property. 02:04 If the book I had to read three times for three different classes over my schooling career (Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe), then it is important to note that hunter gatherer societies also had a sense of property rights very similar to farming cultures. 02:07 Many of these groups had community owned property which the entire group used to hunt and gather, but if someone put up a house or something in this community owned property, they recognized this as belonging to the individual. 02:10 Now, I don't think we'll have to deal with many disputes and conflicts of this type at present. Here's what I see to be a modern parallel: What if there are rights enforcement agencies with different rules and different standards of property ownership? What if individuals from each of these agencies have a conflict with one another about property and they both have different policies about property rights and the like? 02:14 I will now defer to David Friedman and the first part of this video. I hope you find it helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcxGXcmr4ig