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I imagine this is a temporary gig until the burbclaves build out their own armed security services and he moves on to high-speed pizza delivery.
by xxr 9mo ago
I imagine this is a temporary gig until the burbclaves build out their own armed security services and he moves on to high-speed pizza delivery.
- gottorf 9mo agoSome rule of law would be nice, so that we don't have to resort to private security forces.
- aeternum 9mo agoBut property laws disproportionally benefit the rich.
- Sabinus 9mo agoAnd?
- saghm 9mo agoAnd...that is not nice
- Sabinus 9mo agoOnly because you hate the rich. I get that it encourages them to share to keep the pitchforks off their lawn, and that noblesse oblige has broken down recently, but property laws are the foundation of our prosperity. If you can't have something that's actually yours (property laws) for you to invest in, then there will be little investment.
- saghm 9mo agoWanting property laws not to give additional advantages beyond those that wealth itself already gives is not hateful. It's also pretty reasonable that the vast majority of people who are not rich might not care about preserving "our" prosperity in the current form. I'm pretty certain there have been plenty of societies with worse quality of life for most people in them throughout history with property laws at least as strict as ours, so it doesn't follow that people would overall be worse off with more egalitarian property rights. This doesn't even address the obvious issues with assumptions that maximizing prosperity is inherently the most important thing; it was arguably more "propserous" to avoid regulating child labor, 40 hour work weeks, minimum wages, etc., but I fundamentally disagree that those would be bad policies even if there were provably shown to reduce "prosperity", whatever that means
- aeternum 9mo agoIn the current age, can something be both unequal and good?
- FeloniousHam 9mo agoyes?
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- like_any_other 9mo ago> disproportionally So even you concede they benefit almost everyone, only they benefit some more. So should we really be dismantling them and descend into anarchy, just to harm a group you dislike? Doesn't seem like a good move.
- aeternum 9mo agoAll I'm saying is that if a society wants true equality, it cannot have property laws because some individuals will inevitably own more than others. We must decide which is more important.
- gottorf 9mo agoI think the historical evidence is pretty clear that the only way we can achieve true equality in wealth is in equal squalor.
- shaftway 9mo agoBut there's a loophole. Burbclaves will need to let deliverators in, which is a gap in the armor. How are they supposed to defend themselves? Some sort of rat thing?