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You make a good point, but in any case involving profits from land or natural resources, there's a question of political economy. Many of the best thinkers, sin
by nwah1 10y ago
You make a good point, but in any case involving profits from land or natural resources, there's a question of political economy. Many of the best thinkers, since at least the Enlightenment, have held that land ought to be treated as a common resource that all can benefit from. Norway, for instance, has taken that wisdom to heart, and now have a trillion dollar sovereign fund put aside for the public.
- spiderfarmer 10y agoI agree, people and corporations are always focused on short term profits. Perfectly understandable. But that's why it's the government's job to focus on what's good for a country in the long run.
- kahrkunne 10y agoAh yes, the good old philosophy of communism. Great thinkers have been espousing some variation of it since Plato. You'd think that after thousands of years these "great thinkers" would learn that nothing good will come from taking private property and making it a "common resource" (read: property of the state)