Chris,
The question itself speaks volumes.
> Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance to the
> mind's freedom?
Well done! It is certainly on-topic, and is eloquent.
I'm impressed by planning and decision-making that's guided by consideration
for and appreciation of others' future stewardship. I think of the "Seven
Generations" planning of actions taken by certain Native American tribal
councils, the making of decisions with a concern and consideration for how
planned actions, if executed, might effect even the seventh following
generation of people and culture after the elders' actions.
Such planning probably could not have taken into account the arrival of
Europeans in America, and I don't know if the "Seven Generations" principle
remains in play on Native Reservations to this day.
--Joe
-> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance to the
> mind's freedom?
>
> It looks to me like it is, but perhaps we shouldn't argue politics and tax
> policy here?
>
> Rather than share my partisan arguments, let me simply state that
> reasonable people do disagree about these issues. Personally I am grateful
> to have been born into a society that believes in vaccination public
> schools voting research moon missions and the like. the society finds it
> sensible to pay me for tasks which are enjoyable and allow me to learn and
> to master myself, and that seems fine. I didn't create the society nor
> more than a bit of its wealth, so I don't feel like much more than a
> temporary steward of the assets I control.
>
> I do know not everyone shares such a perspective, and there's no profit in
> arguing. I speak to offer the lurkers the data that the idea of capitalism
> without a fixed idea of a personal self can take many forms.
>
> Yours in praeteritio,
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