• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    It’s a huge undertaking. If successful, it would be one of the largest land purchases in Hawaii, behind Larry Ellison’s nearly 90,000-acre acquisition on the island of Lanai.

    How fucking sad that you can buy 90k acre for personal ownership. There is no reason any one person should own that much land.

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        1 hour ago

        Where i live it personal land owners cut off access to water ways. There is a river not 5 minutes from my house however I cant access it cause it’s all private land. Pretty sad

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        14 hours ago

        It seems inevitable to me given how territorial people are. Not just people, other animals too. Like even chimps have different groups that control different territory.

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          13 hours ago

          Yes, but they don’t own it. Territory has to be used and protected. Ownership has some implication that even if no longer used, it is still “mine” and not the community’s. IDK, tough to see what could be as that branch in the development of civilization is so far back. Rutger Bregman has a segment about this in Humanity.

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      2 days ago

      It particularly infuriates me whenever I see someone claim that taxing billionaires would remove their incentive to participate in the economy. As though they’re going to say “if I work this year I’ll only be able to afford 40,000 acres, guess I’ll shut the company down”.