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Re:Drone-mapping slums for land titling – one pixel at a time by simonebrunozzi on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @11:43PM (#17184895)
I have just read his excellent "The mistery of Capital", and highly recommend it.

In short, it's about how a reliable property system allows people to use the non-physical value of their properties (the "economic" value in his words, or "meta" in my mind) to borrow money and fuel entrepreneurship. Very common in the developed world, quite unreliable and uncommon in the developing world.

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