Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land
by perilunar on Saturday August 20, 2022 @10:19AM
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> Only a bandit looks at what you have and tells you it's theirs.
And almost all land currently owned is the result of banditry. Pretty much every bit of habitable land has been fought over, both in the Old World and the New. It's all stolen goods.
Re:Seeing like a state, progress and poverty, and owning land
by perilunar on Saturday August 20, 2022 @10:23AM
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Also, taxing what should be the common property of all mankind is infinitely more just than taxing the fruits of your labour, which should be yours alone.
And almost all land currently owned is the result of banditry. Pretty much every bit of habitable land has been fought over, both in the Old World and the New. It's all stolen goods.