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I am trying to imagine how such a proscription would work. Would there be a list of things corporations are disallowed ownership? Who would the seller be requir
by mcculley 4y ago
I am trying to imagine how such a proscription would work. Would there be a list of things corporations are disallowed ownership? Who would the seller be required to determine if the entity is appropriate? Or would the local property tax clerk just not allow registration by a non-human entity?
- Eisenstein 4y agoThere are lists of chemicals people cannot own, why can there not be lists of things corporations cannot own?
- mcculley 4y agoI am wondering about the details. Would you prohibit anything that could be used as a residence? Office buildings would be permitted? I live in an apartment unit in a 24 story tower. It is owned by a corporation and I lease it. Would only condos owned by humans be permitted?
- Eisenstein 4y agoMe, personally? I don't know -- there are smarter people than I who can come up with lists. I was remarking about the idea itself.
- mcculley 4y agoThese details seem to make the idea unworkable to me.
- Eisenstein 4y agoUntil someone comes up with a proposal I guess we will never know.
- mcculley 4y agoI responded to a proposal with no apparent thought behind it.
- Eisenstein 4y agoI meant a formal proposal as by a legislature.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoDo you suppose laws and the legal system provide the social infrastructure to support the corporate ownership of housing as property? If so, that - outside of political will - can be modified, deleted even. Without legal support, it will collapse.
- mcculley 4y agoI currently lease my apartment unit in a 24 story tower from a corporation. My friend leases a single family home in a suburb from a corporation. Should both of these use cases be eliminated?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoDoes it matter that you lease it specifically from a corporation? I'm just going to guess that you are more interested in where any how you live than what the ownership model is of the place your living. For example given two properties in all ways equal except ownership models, you would take the corporate-owned one? I find that a bit far fetched. Even then, because we typically lack experience with a variety of ownership models, it will be difficult to dis-entangle the familiarity bias from our conceptualizations.
- mcculley 4y agoNo, I don’t want a corporation. I am trying to imagine how renting would work in dense cities with restrictions on ownership. It seems it would be a less liquid market.