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Re:L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave h... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:57AM (#20240484)
Ownership is a collective phenomenon. There is no such thing as private property. No matter what it's called or how it works, ownership is always embedded in a network of relationships and social and political transactions.

The myopic view that it's all about the owner is wrong to the point of narcissism.

It's never just about the owner. It's about the web of relationships in which these transactions and claims happen, and the effects they have on the rest of the web.

Re:L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave h... by writepub on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:39PM (#20246845)
This might be a "philosophical, rhetorical" take on ownership, but by US law, it means something VERY specific, and grants very specific rights to owners, and prohibits those rights to non-owners.
Re:L.A. council members propose taxing landlords who leave h... by Macross8299 on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:18AM (#20240579)
>There is no such thing as private property

This isn't true from the perspective of the legal system and isn't true from the natural law framework on which US common law is based.