I've always thought of buildings as creating surface area, and that a two story building doubles the land and so forth up. I think land was based on theft, but then so were all things before we got decent rule of law. Now the person who lays claim to land is (usually) the person willing to pay the most, who are those who can make the most money from it. The 1880's are over, the working man won, we have the most egalitarian meritocracy in the world, things don't work like that any more.
Thats assuming earth can become a monolithic force. we can't do anything to stop other countries even from polluting right now, much less stop them from building a moon base with mass drivers pointed at earth. Besides, why? they could send down millions of tons of high grade ore in a non-destructive way and get a lot more, like cpu's, and media, and other light weight, high value items, than if they just blew us up.
Where in the constitution does it say that? The only truly inalienable right you have is the right to die, all else is just consensuses among people.
In America the government can supersede all rights to land. The government is controlled by consensus, therefor we all have access to land, it's just consensus says let the market, where those who can derive the most value from land are those most likely to pay for it and than use it most productively, handle the allocation. Instead of some guy on a interweb forum.
PLZ, I mean just PLZ
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I won it while gambling Buzz Aldrin, who stole it from Neil Armstrong while he was sleeping.
I've always thought of buildings as creating surface area, and that a two story building doubles the land and so forth up. I think land was based on theft, but then so were all things before we got decent rule of law. Now the person who lays claim to land is (usually) the person willing to pay the most, who are those who can make the most money from it. The 1880's are over, the working man won, we have the most egalitarian meritocracy in the world, things don't work like that any more.
Thats assuming earth can become a monolithic force. we can't do anything to stop other countries even from polluting right now, much less stop them from building a moon base with mass drivers pointed at earth. Besides, why? they could send down millions of tons of high grade ore in a non-destructive way and get a lot more, like cpu's, and media, and other light weight, high value items, than if they just blew us up.
Where in the constitution does it say that? The only truly inalienable right you have is the right to die, all else is just consensuses among people. In America the government can supersede all rights to land. The government is controlled by consensus, therefor we all have access to land, it's just consensus says let the market, where those who can derive the most value from land are those most likely to pay for it and than use it most productively, handle the allocation. Instead of some guy on a interweb forum. PLZ, I mean just PLZ