Re:'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back ...
by groby_b on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @11:38AM
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Given that the "rural common people" were just as happy killing each other for access to land, good luck finding the "real" owner.
Seriously, there are lots of things wrong with the allocation of wealth and property around the world, but "it was stolen during the agricultural revolution" is an absolutely meaningless argument. Britain e.g. has 900k years of human history. (With the first humans only visiting between cold spells).
There is no "true first owner".
Re:'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back ...
by graemep on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @11:52AM
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> There is no "true first owner".
I did not claim there was a "true first owner".
I said that there was ownership by the common people.
Re:'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back ...
by groby_b on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @12:34PM
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Which common people? Unless you'd like to treat "the common people" as an amorphous blob?
Re:'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back ...
by hgomersall on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:03PM
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The commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
A successful system of land stewardship for many centuries. It was maintained and looked after by the people that lived near to it.
Not true. Common land, in particular, was stolen during the agricultural revolution and enclosed. This also created the cheap labour needed for the industrial revolution. The modern world was built on theft from the rural common people.
> Good thing nowadays you can emigrate relatively easily.
As an immigrant (as a child) I have already done that. I even have dual nationality so one emigration option is easy. The problem is I do not know of anywhere much better.