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All throughout history, it is usually another society who comes in and takes an already occupied land by force and then charges a fee for the previous people to
by memonkey 3y ago
All throughout history, it is usually another society who comes in and takes an already occupied land by force and then charges a fee for the previous people to continue using it. Then there are complex laws set up to make it impossible for these previous people's to own their land again, becoming indebted in one way or another. After a while, after this land has been transferred, typically amongst the families of those who first took the land (or their friends), some people forget this history or are ignorant of it, and just go along with what has been done for years. Inevitably, those with the excess monetary value gained from rent is used to expand and establish these kinds of societal institutions so that it is part of the zeitgeist and thus a controversial take to think this kind of institution is an immoral, or bad, or exploitative one.
- NLPaep 3y agoSource?
- memonkey 3y agoI believe you can Google "landlord history" and you'll get a plenty of results with some brief history of the term. If you want to read further, look at history on colonization or apartheid which sets up these types of infrastructures or variations of it. History w/ Native Americans and what is going on in Israel are two recent/ongoing examples. As for pre-capitalist history, you can look up "feudal land tenure", and before that is just different concepts of modes of land ownership across different geographies.
- skinnymuch 3y agoIs there a source that goes against this? I went to history class and I’ve read Wikipedia and stuff.