> Is it ok for someone to own a communal resource? If there is zoning (and well managed conservation), I don't have a problem with it. I've lived near areas wi

> Is it ok for someone to own a communal resource? If there is zoning (and well managed conservation), I don't have a problem with it. I've lived near areas with no zooning at all, and that's a race to the bottom. You could have 99 year leases or similar instead of ownership (Japan does this?), but that is unfair to e.g. grandchildren who inherit a farm which they've worked hard at all their lives (where land is essentially their means of income.) Yes there is less land to go around, but that problem is ultimately overpopulation, and that's an _entirely_ different topic.