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The parable is very explicitly contrasting taking what you need / taking one seat at the theatre / owning a home to live in, with taking everything and deprivin
by andrepd 4y ago
The parable is very explicitly contrasting taking what you need / taking one seat at the theatre / owning a home to live in, with taking everything and depriving others of the use of what should be common / taking all the seats at the theatre / hoarding homes to extract economic rent, respectively. I'm 99% sure you understood the point too.
- luxuryballs 4y agoI’m not sure there’s a practical or fair way to quantify what someone needs, how can that be measured? Or worse, enforced?
- unlikelymordant 4y agoIn general i think its not about enforcement, but incentives e.g. designing a tax system that penalises owning many homes.
- luxuryballs 4y agobut what if you have a valid plan in the work for the many homes? I think it is a huge violation of privacy for the government to need to vet you on the reasons for your private property
- closeparen 4y ago"Taking one seat at the theater" is something any single family owner-occupier could learn from: - Houses are way bigger than they need to be - Their footprints are enlarged further by useless setbacks and lawns - A single household monopolizes this footprint for the entire vertical dimension