32/ Perhaps never more complicated than in Medieval Europe. It was exceedingly rare for a man to own 20 acres, everything on those 20 acres, and nothing off those 20 acres. Instead, the norm was overlapping sets of claims. One family's land might include:
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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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