Goods are made from natural resources. They were ultimately come by through homesteading the land they came from, right? Those would have been (in the case of North America) the first Americans, right? They laid claim by hunting and agriculture, correct? Therefore, if others (let's say Europeans) 'homesteaded' on such lands (by use of guns and power), then according to your logic, all goods which ultimately originated from the Europeans manufacturing from resources on American soil are illegitimate.
"All" might be a little excessive, certainly there were
some legitimate transfers, or homesteading of unclaimed lands. But at this point, it's nearly impossible to determine which were which, especially after several generations of good faith legitimate transfers.
That's the best you can do? In actuality, it was the U.S. government which laid claim to the lands, using power to grab the land, homestead it, or whatever. If you wish to wave your hands and sweep it all underneath the rug (which you are clearly doing), then fine. By doing so, you are left with the realization that you are a tenant of the U.S. government, and ownership of a parcel of land by you and/or a right to squat on their land is under the provision that you pay taxes. By being said tenant, then you play by their rules, just like I should play by your rules in your house. One of those rules might be a minimum wage rule, as designated by a state, which is also granted rights by the federal government.
If you disagree with this analysis, then I suggest you rephrase your last comment to factor in the realities of the world, which includes power as being the ultimate arbiter. This is in fact what you argue for in your AnCap society.
You make an assumption: that the government is a legitimate entity. It's not. Therefore,
any transfers made by the US Government are by definition not legitimate. I am no more a tenant of the US Government than a person living in the territory of the mafia is a tenant of them. If you're interested in justice, you should be advocating returning government lands to the natives, since
that is a
very easily traced illegitimate transfer.
Of course, drawing lines on a map doesn't grant ownership, so even those people who homesteaded land claimed by, and granted to them by, the US Government aren't tenants, they're the ones who legitimately earned, and so own, that land. (Unless, of course, they had to kill some natives to get the land, which makes the transfer illegitimate, but again, since that was so far in the past, and both the original - native - owners and the people who took the land from them are long gone, it's effectively impossible to track it all down.)
