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Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio... by int_19h on Saturday April 20, 2019 @11:00PM (#19710300)
> We protect other peoples' property rights in order to secure our own.

And from there follows a simple equation - when the distribution of benefit from recognizing existing property rights is too skewed in favor of the few, the gains to be had by the rest from refusing to recognize those rights anymore exceed the risks of not being able to secure your own.

When elites forget about this equation for too long, revolutions happen.

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Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio... by AnimalMuppet on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:08AM (#19710487)
Oh, I agree. And the rich should remember it, and start acting accordingly.
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Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio... by snidane on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:03AM (#19712111)
It's not the 'rich'. It is the rentiers.

Rich can be rich because of great societal or technological improvements as well as somebody stealing legally or illegally from others.

Rentiers can be both very rich or not so much, but always at the expense of other people.

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