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> Being allowed to sit on unrealized value from the land By “sit on unrealized value”, you mean continuing to live in my home, in the community that I’ve worke
by teakettle42 4y ago
> Being allowed to sit on unrealized value from the land
By “sit on unrealized value”, you mean continuing to live in my home, in the community that I’ve worked with others to build, exactly as I have for many years prior?
It’s incredibly presumptuous to think you have the right to force me from my home and dismantle my community because you don’t like how we’re choosing to “sit on unrealized value”.
> deny its use to all others in society
I’m also denying the use of my lawnmower to all others in society, but I don’t have to pay a yearly tax on it.
There’s plenty of land, plenty of housing, and plenty of lawnmowers.
You’re not entitled to mine just because you really want to take it from me.
- lovich 4y ago> You’re not entitled to mine just because you really want to take it from me. No one is entitled to anything that is your property. However, you still don’t own the land. Just a right to exclusiveish(barring other rights others hold to the land like easements) use of it as long as you pay your property taxes. Wanting to keep a monopoly on the use of the land without paying the taxes is you feeling entitled to taking land from society.
- teakettle42 4y agoWhy should “society” have a stronger right to land than the people inhabiting it?
- lovich 4y agoBecause that society’s government is what actually owns the land? If you think you own the land do you think you can do things like cede it to another country? If you can’t cede the land, how does that jive with actually owning it?