Rather than having to petition the commune for a day’s use of a red shirt, I can simply decide to wear my red shirt today. I can make solid plans around decisions that I’m the only major input to. This will sometimes lead to socially suboptimal decisions if coordination were free—maybe I look really bad in red, and a wise commune would give me blue instead—but given that coordination is not free, this is often our best available option.
It’s also worth pointing out also that coordination isn’t always desirable. If the average member of the commune thinks the best way to deal with a disease is to direct resources at empty passenger airlines and military helicopters, but you think spending time and resources developing vaccines is more important, you can use your own property to develop them instead of trying to get permission.
I think the general case of this is that private property lets you do things that the government* doesn’t think are worth it, at the expense of not being able to direct as many resources as the things the government thinks are most important.
* I’m not sure of the right term to use here but government seems like the best word for it
It’s also worth pointing out also that coordination isn’t always desirable. If the average member of the commune thinks the best way to deal with a disease is to direct resources at empty passenger airlines and military helicopters, but you think spending time and resources developing vaccines is more important, you can use your own property to develop them instead of trying to get permission.
I think the general case of this is that private property lets you do things that the government* doesn’t think are worth it, at the expense of not being able to direct as many resources as the things the government thinks are most important.
* I’m not sure of the right term to use here but government seems like the best word for it