Lockean proviso

And the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same.The phrase Lockean proviso was coined by American libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

Locke's proviso has also been used by socialists and universal basic income advocates to point to land acquisition as illegitimate without compensation.

[4][5][6] American libertarians of the modern Austrian School and anarcho-capitalist traditions, such as Murray Rothbard,[7] have accepted Locke's other views on property whilst rejecting the Lockean proviso.

[8] French researcher Ai-Thu Dang criticized Nozick's reading of the Lockean proviso, saying it denatures its meaning, especially Locke's "articulation to moral rules governing enrichment".

The poorest people today, even in wealthy nations, are worse off than they could reasonably expect to be in a stateless hunter-gatherer band that treats the environment as commons that cannot be owned by anyone.