Re:Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate
by ChuckMcM on Saturday February 07, 2015 @06:38PM
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Heh we could but then we wouldn't be talking about what we're talking about :-). As my philosophically focused friends tend to point out you can talk about anything at all, and still not have a discussion of substance.
I understand the debate about property ownership, but you can either choose to discuss using the system we have in place, or you can talk about the system itself. But trying to talk about both at the same time robs both points of view from the first principles they are starting from. Any argument in one system can be refuted by changing the principles in the other.
The land ownership system, currently in place in the US, may or may not be morally reprehensible and unfair, but that is not the issue to which the NY Times speaks.
I understand the debate about property ownership, but you can either choose to discuss using the system we have in place, or you can talk about the system itself. But trying to talk about both at the same time robs both points of view from the first principles they are starting from. Any argument in one system can be refuted by changing the principles in the other.
The land ownership system, currently in place in the US, may or may not be morally reprehensible and unfair, but that is not the issue to which the NY Times speaks.