@RickiTarr So true. In that same vein, it's kind of odd about borders, the seriousness of these absolutely imaginary lines.

@RickiTarr "Owning" land is the end result of a process that began when religion moved from being a thing one did to a thing one thought. If one's religion is not grounded in practice, it is inevitable that one will eventually forget that land is something one participates in rather a thing separate from one's self that it is possible to conceive of owning.

#theology

@RickiTarr If only we could do the same to rich landowners.

@RickiTarr and now they are off to space. The final frontier. ☹️

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Well first they had to murder some animals and plants

@RickiTarr Well, yes - and that is tragic. Have you seen the *cough* tax deducted *hack* memorials that we here at LivEcorp have dedicated to the indigenous people that generations of elders who clearly weren't us did so lets all clap hey?

dark humor, forgive me.

@RickiTarr We do need some sort of system where people don't get to wreck what someone else is doing under the mantle of "sharing the land".

Though that really doesn't have to mean the current system.

I'm all for fallow land and abandoned buildings falling back to being available for anyone who wants it. Use it or lose it should be an integral part of how we respect people's land use.

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Most of the basis for wealth in the US Midwest is simply how murderous your great grandparents were until 1880 or so.

@RickiTarr The older I get, the more convinced I am that the game “musical chairs” is meant to legitimize “the last person to have this whenever we decided to civilize” as a form of title.

@RickiTarr Ukraine here... (Waves👋). Still in this. Still fighting. 🇺🇦

@RickiTarr Yep it's called History

@RickiTarr Well going back a bit farther, all animals exist by killing other life forms.

@RickiTarr Britsh Land Ownership

@RickiTarr This has always been the basis for everything that is wrong with the modern “western” world. After the warlords got their land, they handed it to their mates, then put a tax on the people who didn’t have any land and we were lumbered with rich, land-owning rulers. And then they travelled around the world, killing all the native people, stealing all their wealth, and drawing lines across the land to protect their interests. With no consideration for the natives (Congo, India etc).

@RickiTarr sounds exactly like the politics of my nearby street cats.

@RickiTarr Yes, as revolting as Russians in Ukraine!

@RickiTarr Exactly. Land ownership wasn't really necessary until the domestication of livestock. When your wealth was measured in cows, to be really wealthy you needed space to keep them.

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And if you were greedy enough and violent enough to take it all, you could be King!

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Maybe things will collapse to the point where we go back to being hunter/gatherers, no land ownership needed.

Of course, that will support less than 1/1000th of our current population...

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The natives thought it was hilarious when Europeans wanted to buy 'their' land.

"Sure! Do you want to buy our air too?"

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"I'm just gonna spread out. You guys cram together over there, maybe in a prison or something."

#PrivateProperty

@RickiTarr Not only that we came up with the idea of owning things, animals and even other people.

@RickiTarr “The Land Ordinance Act held the premise that all lands were freely alienable (not held by an overlord). Individuals could purchase land, make it productive, and hold title to it. The Land Ordinance Act of 1785 was the beginning of property rights in the United States. It created the legal framework for land ownership in which lands could be legally transferred through a land patent using a document called a title.”

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However, in the United States, the concept of land ownership was taken from the Greek, just like the concept of democracy. In ancient Greece, the land was owned by small landholders and farmers who became the citizens of the city-states. If a threat appeared, the landholders banded together to defend everyone's property. Once the threat was vanquished, each went back to his own holdings.

@RickiTarr In many parts of the world, the land was equated with power. People who could hold large amounts of land were considered very powerful, and they became the monarchs who owned vast stretches. Then they granted parts of their land to men as a reward for services, making them “landed.” However, the person to whom the land was granted was never considered the owner. He could pass it down to descendants, but the moment there was no heir, the land reverted to the monarchy

@RickiTarr Nomadic hunter-gatherers were mostly communal. Land ownership (along with the ownership of "water rights") came along with agriculture.

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And the concept of land ownership is so damaging to society and to the world. It's bizarre that we've allowed it not only to be adopted at all, but to become pervasive.

#LandReform
#LaTierraEsDeQuienLaTrabaja

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