Interesting common law references. The jury of peers is currently under sustained corporate attack by various forms of coerced “arbitration”. I think they may need Frank Luntz to give it a better name, like “mother’s milk” to speed public acceptance.

One can posit an enlightened capitalism by redefining many of the terms and rules of capitalism, as some have done (see natural capitalism), but the historical baggage of capitalism would make this pretty confusing to many.

Where such exercises may have utility is in bridging or transitioning between an existing capitalist framework and a some other.

But on the whole, capitalism has been a system of euphemisms for theft and exploitation.

PR

This strikes me as an extremely profound idea. I tried to think of exceptions where something is a resource without labor being involved. I thought of air, but then of course air is not really a resource without breathing.

I can only add to this concept by suggesting that we might want to recognize something we could call “potential resources” which might be similar to “potential energy” in the physical sciences; and “processed resources” that would capture the relative degree of labor incorporated and the availability of the resource to a particular user. It is worth assigning value (monetary, social, and otherwise) to potential resources, but we can no longer do so without considering the integral value of the labor involved in converting potential resources to available resources.