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He was claiming the right of disposal of our possessions. He has given them to us only as trustees, not as owners.
J. Oswald Sanders • Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
fleet/re: Metaverse; or How can you colonize the intangible?
Companies have been successfully working on this for two decades but when the prospect of "owning" land in the Metaverse surfaced— and was subsequently swallowed up by the few, it became immediately obvious what the playbook was:
You'll own nothing out here, and nothing in there.
It wa
... See more‘landed property’ is not actual soil, rocks or grass. It is a legal understanding, maintained by a subtle mix of morality and the threat of violence. In fact, land ownership illustrates perfectly the logic of what Rudolf von Ihering called the state’s monopoly of violence within a territory – just within a much smaller territory than a nation state
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (Forerunners: Ideas First)
amazon.com
It’s the Land, Stupid: How the Homebuilder Cartel Drives High Housing Prices
Matt Stollerthebignewsletter.com
proposed having owners self-assess the value of their property under penalty of having to sell at this self-assessed value.[447]