Re:Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Dam...
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:34PM
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> The exact same thing that makes me think I can't just walk into your home and take what I want
No, it doesn't work that way. My house is not your house. My land is not your land.
If you're going to restrict my use of my property to increase your property value, you should pay me for that privilege.
Re:Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Dam...
by chongli on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:45PM
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No, that's not the way it works. When you move into a neighbourhood, a city, a state/province, and a country, you implicitly agree to abide by the rules. If the rules say you're not allowed to build your own house without approval of the design from an architect and an engineer and then you ignore them at your legal peril.
Re:Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Dam...
by Turing_Machine on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:18AM
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You're talking about "rules" as if they were some immutable dictate sent down from the gods.
The rules in many areas used to forbid selling houses to black people.
Those rules were changed. By force.
The exact same thing that makes me think I can't just walk into your home and take what I want, because I want it and you're not using it. The rules set forth by the society we live in, as decided by the people living in that society. Sure, not all the rules are great; many of them are awful. But the solution to that is to fix the rules, not to say there shouldn't be _any_.