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Funny Farm erin's avatar

Thank you for this piece. I hope more folks come across it.

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Unacceptable Bob's avatar

Some property owners in Nova Scotia are getting a taste of their own medicine, as they do not own subsurface mineral rights. Uranium and Lithium mining has been given the green light. Land owners can ask for compensation, but have no say whether a project gets approved. Development is development.

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Jan Steinman's avatar

No matter how hard you try, you can't get away from it.

I've been instrumental in forming two co-ops, and currently live in a third.

In each case, the deck has been stacked against us. We pay more for a mortgage. We pay more for insurance. We have limited mobility — you don't just hand co-op shares over to a realtor, even if those shares include tenancy on the land. We have limited liquidity — no bank is going to loan you money, secured by your co-op shares.

Co-ops supposedly have the same limited liability of corporations, and yet, our mortgage holder insists that each co-op member is a guarantor on the loan. Can you imagine a for-profit corporation being required to have all their shareholders co-sign their loans?

There is systemic bias against alternatives to property ownership. That's not going to keep me from trying, but it is an upstream-swim, and is disheartening.

No matter what religion you profess, we all are forced to worship at the Church Of Growth.

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Kaiser Basileus's avatar

Rights are a minimum level of reciprocity necessary to enable civilization. If it's not fair, it's not rights.

https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-ownership

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The Peaceful Revolutionary's avatar

I would love the English language to be more accurate and specific in this regard.

I suggest possible new words (portmanteaus) in my Whats In A Word series. Following your example, it looks like I need one on Property too.

https://peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/about#§whats-in-a-word-series

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Kaiser Basileus's avatar

Many of my notes and posts are semantic taxonomy and mereology. And this https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/metaphysics-in-a-nutshell does the same for everything, roughly, in metaphysics incl. meta-ethics.

bonus: https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/my-dictionary

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Beach Hippie's avatar

In the early days of America they'd go out and survey Native American lands and start selling it off. George Washington was among them. That's the corrupt root of all privately held property, at some point someone with power told other people they'd have pay them with an invented man made currency to have access to land that was previously free to all.

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Susannah Eanes's avatar

Excellent article. Something like this was desperately needed in the public discourse. I think it will help people understand how to begin peeling off the layers of corporate bullshit that are killing the planet. Thank you.

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