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Although astazangasta is complaining about rent, he doesn't actually want to buy land either. He thinks he is entitled to free land.
by Crito 11y ago
Although astazangasta is complaining about rent, he doesn't actually want to buy land either. He thinks he is entitled to free land.
- mschuster91 11y agoNative Americans iirc thrived without the concept of "privatized land" for thousands of years. Same for basically other self-sustaining native population in history. Okay, you got the occasional clashes with other clans for land but hey, you could always move somewhere else. That's impossible now, given the massive numbers of humans on this planet.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoSorry, that is not correct. http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/aztec/aztec_property.html http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/aztec/aztec_property.... I doubt there's ever been an urban culture that didn't have some concept of property ownership, whether by individuals, "nobles", or the state.
- scarmig 11y agoDepends on the particular geographic area you're talking about. In the Northeast, for example, land rights were radically different from the Aztecs. That said, it was never as simple as "everyone holds land in common and can do whatever they want with it individually."
- Turing_Machine 11y agoWere there urban cultures in the Northeast? The largest I've heard of seem more like "towns" than "cities". There were full-scale cities in the Midwest and South, of course, but I don't think we know enough about those cultures to say what their property rights were like. I'd bet money they were a lot closer to the Aztecs than to a typical hunter-gatherer band, though. The Tlingit of the Northwest also had a complicated system of property rights, including something akin to what we call "intellectual property" (though there were significant differences to our system). They also kept large numbers of slaves.