property of the other. In the instance that we are without an equally desirable good, we must have some other medium of trade currency in order to obtain the ownership or use of a property possessed by another. The introduction of money into society is an extension of property, granting a non-perishable medium of exchange to assign common value to a possessed good or service, according to humankind's desire for the item. Locke postulates the origin of money:. . . in the beginning before the desire of having more than man needed had altered the intrinsic value of things, which depends only on the usefulness to the life of man; or had agreed that little piece of yellow metal, which would keep without wasting or decay, should be worth a great piece of flesh, or whole heap of corn. . .[pg.23] We find yet another example of the loss of equality in the introduction of currency. Assigning values to the property of respective individuals removes the common balance between all human beings. By the time the practice of possession comes to need a medium, the desire for goods possessed or owned by another individual or group can be described as those who have possessions and those who do not have possessions the haves and the have-nots. The have- nots, forced to bending to the will of the haves in order to accumulate enough currency, or money to become a have, thus attaining equality with the other haves, acquiring dominance over those who have not. If person A possesses one apple which is worth one unit of currency, and person B has one rabbit worth 5 units of currency (the rabbit being worth more because it required more work to obtain) and the owner of the apple decides he/she wants the rabbit; then the owner of the apple is at a disadvantage to the rabbit owner. In order to obtain the rabbit, person A must submit himself/herself to satisfying person B's requirement for transferral of the rabbit. A non-owner is required to subject himse...
