Keith replied to REH: > There always has been an ownership society. Go to Papua New Guinea where > there are still some hunter-gatherer tribes, still living largely as they > were thousands of years ago. Ask them whether they share their patch of > rain-forest environment with the tribe next door. Some tribes live on poles > 100 feet in the air because they're afraid of being slaughtered in their > sleep by an adjacent tribe.
All of this is NOT an argument for an ownership society (esp. private land ownership). The tribe's patch of rain-forest corresponds to a country or canton, not to a person's private land ownership. Within a country/canton, like in rain-forest tribes, the land can be owned by the community instead of by individuals. (Individuals may lease small patches, to be re-allocated according to ability.) > poles > 100 feet in the air because they're afraid of being slaughtered in their > sleep by an adjacent tribe. Yes, by an adjacent tribe, not by other individuals of their own tribe who compete for private ownership of small patches of land! Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
