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Say I die and the state wants to decide what to do with my million-acre farm. They either have to give it to one person, split it up amongst multiple people, o
by mac01021 8y ago
Say I die and the state wants to decide what to do with my million-acre farm.
They either have to give it to one person, split it up amongst multiple people, or run it themselves. If they do the first, the headline is unaffected, if they do the last, the headline becomes "half of England is owned by the state".
That leaves splitting it up. But splitting up a farm in a useful way is not always trivial. And if you split one farm into three, how do you choose which three people should inherit these tremendous blocks of land?
It seems almost like we have a simple choice between socialism on one side and pronounced inequality in land ownership on the other, when it comes to large-scale agriculture.