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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by thaumasiotes on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:46AM (#11513752)
> Not that I think this is a bad thing, but if you're trying to argue with this particular rhetorical framing, you're going to lose hard.

I think you missed the other half of the sentence:

> and yet completely selfless that you feel you have a right to [the money someone else earned]

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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by aninhumer on Sunday April 17, 2016 @06:27AM (#11514070)
The other half of the sentence only makes sense within a property system. My point is that the very act of saying "That's mine, you can't have it" is already incredibly selfish.
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