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   From: The_greatest_truth_is_honesty@truth.com   
      
   On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 12:09:29 -0700, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Often it is related to tribal survival.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   That is disputed, in almost every society the question of land ownership,   
   the chiefs and the masses.   
      
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