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You don't own the land you own, even if you bought it. You are paying the zombie tax. Which is to say the population is growing too fast, there isn't enough lan

You don't own the land you own, even if you bought it. You are paying the zombie tax. Which is to say the population is growing too fast, there isn't enough land, and if there weren't regulations humans would kill you and steal your land and eat your corpse because humans are animals. So you pay a tax, that tax supports a system we call "society", which kills or controls the masses who would otherwise murder you and take everything you think you own. I call it the zombie tax because the best way to imagine the alternative would be the unstoppable hordes of zombies we see in hollywood films.

throwaway2016a 9y ago
Note: I said I personally agree with property tax. I think it is vital to pay for the roads and other critical services homeowners get from the local municipality. I didn't take a stance on whether or not you actual own your real-estate.
pavel_lishin 9y ago
If we accept the Zombie Tax premise, then we don't own anything.
- featherverse 9y ago
  Well if you really want to get into the philosophy of this, it is important to first acknowledge that concepts like "society", or "property" are completely fictional, made-up ideas, that people simply invented. It's not that different from kids playing pretend in their parent's basement, inventing any rules they want for their game. They can do whatever they want, because there isn't anyone else around to tell them differently. A lot, I mean a _lot_ of people do not often think about this fact, they sort of assume that these concepts were handed down by some impossible deity (god is not real.) But the truth is they emerged from intelligent self-aware people who for various reasons simply decided that these things should exist. So with that in mind, if property is make-believe, how can you "own" something? What precisely is ownership? Just more make-believe, using different words. If it exists at all, it's a social contract, and when it's you versus everyone else, hate to break it to you but it means nothing.

throwaway2016a 9y ago

Note: I said I personally agree with property tax. I think it is vital to pay for the roads and other critical services homeowners get from the local municipality. I didn't take a stance on whether or not you actual own your real-estate.

pavel_lishin 9y ago

If we accept the Zombie Tax premise, then we don't own anything.

featherverse 9y ago
Well if you really want to get into the philosophy of this, it is important to first acknowledge that concepts like "society", or "property" are completely fictional, made-up ideas, that people simply invented. It's not that different from kids playing pretend in their parent's basement, inventing any rules they want for their game. They can do whatever they want, because there isn't anyone else around to tell them differently. A lot, I mean a _lot_ of people do not often think about this fact, they sort of assume that these concepts were handed down by some impossible deity (god is not real.) But the truth is they emerged from intelligent self-aware people who for various reasons simply decided that these things should exist. So with that in mind, if property is make-believe, how can you "own" something? What precisely is ownership? Just more make-believe, using different words. If it exists at all, it's a social contract, and when it's you versus everyone else, hate to break it to you but it means nothing.