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If you can't keep your property free of invasive plants, the government should seize it and auction it off. Right now a big part of the reason why real estate i

If you can't keep your property free of invasive plants, the government should seize it and auction it off. Right now a big part of the reason why real estate is overpriced is that the costs of maintaining it are artificially low, because the government allows people to push externalities like this onto their neighbors. The government shouldn't be forcing the poor to subsidize the rich.

bavell 5y ago
The horror of nature must be subdued! Down with our plant overlords!
gruez 5y ago
>Right now a big part of the reason why real estate is overpriced is that the costs of maintaining it are artificially low, because the government allows people to push externalities like this onto their neighbors. Sounds like a HOA would be prefect for you.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
> If you can't keep your property free of invasive plants, the government should seize it and auction it off Don't take this the wrong way, but that's a little unhinged. It's a terrible idea to give any governing body this much power.
technothrasher 5y ago
I have about seven acres of woodlands on my property that are littered with invasive plants. If the government is auctioning off my property because of them, they're either going to be auctioning it off over and over, or somebody is going to have to strip the entire forest bare.
- Alex3917 5y ago
  Or it'll get split up. The point is that people shouldn't be allowed to own more property than they can steward responsibly. That said, if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easier to keep them from coming back.
  - perl4ever 5y ago
    >if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easier to keep them from coming back. I think this is a denial of what "invasive species" are, and even evolution itself. An invasive species is something that thrives in many environments and outcompetes natives. Since humans have become concerned about such things, loopholes in human thinking, behavior and social institutions are necessarily part of the fitness function that makes something invasive. People can target something specific on a micro level, but at a high level, "invasive" will itself evolve to whatever works because people are psychologically or institutionally blind to it. Have you ever tried to mow thistles or vetch?

bavell 5y ago

The horror of nature must be subdued! Down with our plant overlords!

gruez 5y ago

>Right now a big part of the reason why real estate is overpriced is that the costs of maintaining it are artificially low, because the government allows people to push externalities like this onto their neighbors. Sounds like a HOA would be prefect for you.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago

> If you can't keep your property free of invasive plants, the government should seize it and auction it off Don't take this the wrong way, but that's a little unhinged. It's a terrible idea to give any governing body this much power.

technothrasher 5y ago

I have about seven acres of woodlands on my property that are littered with invasive plants. If the government is auctioning off my property because of them, they're either going to be auctioning it off over and over, or somebody is going to have to strip the entire forest bare.

Alex3917 5y ago
Or it'll get split up. The point is that people shouldn't be allowed to own more property than they can steward responsibly. That said, if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easier to keep them from coming back.
- perl4ever 5y ago
  >if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easier to keep them from coming back. I think this is a denial of what "invasive species" are, and even evolution itself. An invasive species is something that thrives in many environments and outcompetes natives. Since humans have become concerned about such things, loopholes in human thinking, behavior and social institutions are necessarily part of the fitness function that makes something invasive. People can target something specific on a micro level, but at a high level, "invasive" will itself evolve to whatever works because people are psychologically or institutionally blind to it. Have you ever tried to mow thistles or vetch?