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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by ptah on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:17AM (#22201391)
the state still has to protect it. without a state someone else could violently take the land away with impunity
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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by zozbot234 on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:24AM (#22201439)
That's why these rights should be leased over time. The rent from these leases can then pay for national defense, a courts system (formal rights to real-estate are quite important if you want people to physically invest in it) and many other things. If you just give them away, you're left with no money to pay for these things.
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