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chesterton said that too much capitalism is not when there are too many capitalists, but when there are too few capitalists similarly, too much home ownership
by recursivedoubts 4y ago
chesterton said that too much capitalism is not when there are too many capitalists, but when there are too few capitalists
similarly, too much home ownership is not when there are too many home owners, but rather too few home owners (banks and landlords)
giving the common man the ability to own, as outright as possible, his own land and home, to improve and pass on to his descendants, is the ideal of all just government, against which the elites, rentiers and usurers have always chafed