# Private Property

> Private Property is mapped as the allocation: it decides how wealth, work, ownership, risk, care, and public goods are distributed and governed.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:political-economy:private-property` |
| Family | Political Economy & Distribution |
| Domain | Political Economy |
| Kind | mechanism |
| Archetypal function | The Allocation |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Private Property belongs to the **Political Economy & Distribution** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Private Property decides how wealth, work, ownership, risk, care, and public goods are distributed and governed, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Private Property, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Allocation.** Private Property is mapped as the allocation: it decides how wealth, work, ownership, risk, care, and public goods are distributed and governed.

## Gift

reveals material stakes beneath symbolic conflict; through Private Property, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

reduces people to incentives or treats one distribution as natural; Private Property can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Private Property to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Allocation enters through Private Property. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Private Property becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**resource.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Private Property; another player names a countermove. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **constrains — Property:** Property constrains Private Property by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **legitimizes — Public Ownership:** Private Property legitimizes Public Ownership by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Trade Union:** Trade Union distributes costs to Private Property by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **depends on — Loyalty Test:** Private Property depends on Loyalty Test by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Private Property from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Private Property is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Private Property: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.
- [Preventing Policy Capture](https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/preventing-policy-capture_9789264065239-en.html) — OECD, 2017. Mechanisms and safeguards concerning capture of public decision-making.
- [National Labor Relations Act](https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/national-labor-relations-act) — National Labor Relations Board, 1935. U.S. collective-bargaining and protected concerted-activity framework.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
