10 Rawls's understanding of the primary goods is now based on a political rather than a general moral oranthropological conception of human needs. They are the needs ofcitizens in a certain kind of regime, namely, the liberal regime. Therefore, Rawls asks not what anyone needs but what citizens of a liberalregime need

inasmuch as coming to own intellectual property is often tied to being well-educated. If people become increasingly progressive with increasing education, intellectual property confers economic power on men and women of talent who generally tend to reform society, not because they are haphazard Burkian goblins, but because they have well-informed convictions.

ctual property may be a liberal influence on society