30/ On a tangent, this allergy to complexity is a thing, where people can't abstract away from the concrete to truly understand things. As they say in coding: there are two types of people: those who understand pointers and those who can't.
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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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Address water rights: If a river runs through a property, owner lacks (?) an inherent libertarian right to simply acquire all incoming water and sell it to the highest bidder, no consideration of those downstream.
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Offhand methinks this is prime example of packaging/peeling rights, lest those downstream resort to force.
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