Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco

Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by scarmig on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:53PM (#9979313)

Depends on the particular geographic area you're talking about. In the Northeast, for example, land rights were radically different from the Aztecs.

That said, it was never as simple as "everyone holds land in common and can do whatever they want with it individually."

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Re:Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Franc... by Turing_Machine on Thursday July 30, 2015 @10:20PM (#9979582)

Were there urban cultures in the Northeast? The largest I've heard of seem more like "towns" than "cities".

There were full-scale cities in the Midwest and South, of course, but I don't think we know enough about those cultures to say what their property rights were like. I'd bet money they were a lot closer to the Aztecs than to a typical hunter-gatherer band, though.

The Tlingit of the Northwest also had a complicated system of property rights, including something akin to what we call "intellectual property" (though there were significant differences to our system). They also kept large numbers of slaves.

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