28/ The objection is often formulated No, Morlock, a homestead / land is sacrosanct, and a man should own ALL of the rights to his land, and this modern governmental meddling this peels away "right to build in the 20 boundary" and takes it away from a man is WRONG and unnatural
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39/ Strong agree. Absolute-ish property rights are modern Anglo-American. Medieval property norms exist in the medieval setting. Native American norms exist in the pre-Columbian setting. I strongly prefer Anglo-American norms but they aren't natural.https://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1257332997268869123 …
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40/ This is a mistake baby libertarians make all the time. They take an already-simplified history of a thing, simplify it further, deduce a Platonic Form, and then assert that that Form is (a) real, (b) the ONLY real option. Property is to some degree a social construct.
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41/ In the end, force / power is real. Property is a set of norms that decrease the need to actively use force. Decreasing actual use of force is good, because violence destroys utility.
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42/ Yes. I like to look at things through an information technology lens. Labor levees, taxes based on arable land - all of these are good technology when computation and record keeping are expensive.https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1257333384096948226 …
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43/ On those rare occasions when I get optimistic about the future of individual liberty, it is because technological improvements make it easier and cheaper measure use and to charge people by use, not by headcount or income or land.
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44/ now I'm in that position where I argued for X, someone enthusiastically agreed with me re X, and now I feel dirty and need to somehow find a caveat so that I can pick a fight to ensure that I don't have any allies on this pointhttps://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1257333895630147585 …
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45/ Yes. I was already thinking of property rights and making an analogy to Robert Nozick's argument in Anarchy State and Utopia, and this thread crystallizes it.https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1257345406503092228 …
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46/ very well said people trade things, and that makes clean, tidy, top-down "seeing like a state and/or autist" models untenable
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48/ I'm guessing that there aren't a ton of updates
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