XPost: soc.culture.jewish   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 11/06/2019 04:27 AM, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   > Land underpins a free market economy, and it is an insurance policy for   
   > people who become unemployed. It allows those who want to, to start a   
   > business very easily, and it also challenges those to do that even if   
   > they do not want to, but they must because they must eat and they can   
   > otherwise not find a serf position that pays them enough. Getting a job   
   > is in the end a privilege, you cannot rely on it.   
      
   I have never owned land and had no problem starting a business. In fact   
   being linked to a specific geographical point would have been   
   detrimental. Some of us a hunter-gatherers, so to speak, some are   
   farmers. Historically, the concept of owning a particular chunk of the   
   earth lead to hierarchical social structures and serfdom.   
      
   Many people around here own, or at least occupy at the sufferance of the   
   bank they are indebted to, their McMansions on five or ten acres of   
   land. The land is not arable and would have trouble supporting a goat.   
      
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