"your ownership of anything is merely a record written on some piece of paper" This is a very young/naive way of seeing it, as the Spanish saying dutifully not

"your ownership of anything is merely a record written on some piece of paper" This is a very young/naive way of seeing it, as the Spanish saying dutifully notes, "physically having something is 9 parts out of 10 of the law for ownership" ("La posesión es nueve décimas partes de la ley"). Meaning ownership is not as much what is on paper but it is having something, claiming it's yours, and no one else claiming it's theirs basically (not always, but that's why the saying says 9 out of 10). https://primaveraeuropea.eu/la-posesion-es-nueve-decimas-partes-de-la-ley/ https://primaveraeuropea.eu/la-posesion-es-nueve-decimas-par...