XPost: soc.culture.jewish   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 11/09/2019 04:15 AM, The greatest truth is honesty wrote:   
   > On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 07:55:24 -0700, rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Hunting tribes consider that some areas belong to them.   
   >   
      
   The tribes did. It gave the young men something to do, defending against   
   the tribe on the other side of the hill. However, the Big Chief didn't   
   own the tribal lands and extract tribute from members of the tribe for   
   hunting on them. That came later.   
      
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