Apr27, 2024  Production, Consumption and Distribution.

Does anybody have a right to claim more than they produce in a just society?

Finding a way to organize society may be done heuristically.

Axioms for life: 

•   Humans by nature want to live in freedom, the reason for individual rights.
  
•   Freedom to live by one's own values.
  

 Before civilization, might was right. Weaker members were subjugated and made to suffer. In time, the majority realized that all could be made to follow some rules to make life fairer for all. As the majority was stronger than strongest individuals, it laid out rules.

Monarchy, tyranny, theocracy, communism, democracy were adopted and are still in operation.

To me, democracies that guarantee individual rights, facilitates unforced production and trade approaches the best way possible to organize human life. An individual's right to live in freedom without violating another's rights to the same, to trade and relate to freely with other individuals is the lynch pin of making it the best.