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Re:A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned by erulabs on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:33AM (#17807768)
Ah yes - the scourge of society - the empty house, the misallocated resource, the malinvested fund.

If imperfect utilization of resources is is a cancer, what words do you reserve for war, genocide, or starvation?

Many many many things worse in this world than a confusing legal battle over an old home. No systems are perfect, but free markets sure are pragmatic!

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Re:A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned by rrcaptain on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:39AM (#17807791)
And much of those things are part of, and often actively caused by, capitalism, including war and starvation.

The legal battle over some obscure bit of private property is not the worst bit of capitalism, I didn't say it was. But it's an absurdly obvious example of how capitalism is a failed system.

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