John Locke believes that man has a right to private property. According to Locke, God gave man this plentiful earth, with all of its plants and animals, to work on and nourish our bodies with. God gave us this earth to “make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience” (135). Since our bodies are properly ours, the “labour of his [our] body” is also properly ours, so “whatsoever then he removes out …showed first 75 words of 408 total…

…showed last 75 words of 408 total…investing. I cannot arrive at how he would react to this. On one hand, Locke may approve of this because some amount of work is still involved: investors must research their moves, as well as work to make the money in the first place. On the other hand, Locke may disdain this because making money from money seems to go away from the way God intended the gift of the earth’s resources to be.