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The Daily Show finds that Occupy Wall Street is against “private property,” but not “personal property.”
Wait. What?!
Are you really so dense that you don’t understand that personal property (commodities and basic goods) is significantly different from private property (private, guarded ownership of a means of production)? The two terms can’t be used interchangeably.
I’m not unaware of the distinction that some philosophical systems make between the two terms. But that distinction doesn’t exist in common parlance, which is why I (and presumably the Daily Show editors/writers, hardly an anti-OWS bunch based on their coverage of the protests as a whole) found funny. Also funny was the irony of the interviewee’s larger statement: that he wants everyone to have access to technology but not, of course, his technology.
