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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      35/ ...and speaking of the poor, the widows of the town have the right to glean the fields after harvest, so while I can grow wheat on my land, and harvest it, I can't do TOO GOOD A JOB at harvesting it

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      36/ Also, as the land fronts the road, there is a levy where 5 days of labor per year must be spent maintaining the road. Additionally, attached to the land is the right to have a market stall thrive per year in the local village...but the stall can't be more than 10' tall

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      37/ ...lest it cast shadow on the adjacent stalls. Guys, ROMAN CITIES has zoning laws, specifying maximum heights, limitations on use, etc. If you object to zoning setbacks as a 20th century prog innovation ... you're not nearly as "trad" as you think you are.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted BrittleBear

      38/ A fine question, but regrettably I have no good answer. I've picked up a smattering of knowledge of the history of property rights by reading David Friedman (always recommended), Roman history, medieval history, and lots of wiki bits.https://twitter.com/BrtlBearFeBull/status/1257323956056424454 …

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      BrittleBear @BrtlBearFeBull
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Alright I’m convinced: what books should I read, this is utterly fascinating.
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Prometheus 2.1

      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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      Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Not only that, but expectations of land rights are very tightly wound to cultural expectations as well. Anthropologists know this well, as they see those differences all the time. You can't just slap on different land rules without changing a culture.
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      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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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      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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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

      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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      Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
      Replying to @MorlockP
      The ancients weren't dumb Not even the prehistorics were dumb They all created complex relationships and rules which today we would label "economic" and "legal"; they were created because they were useful and they endured and were refined because they were productive.
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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      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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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Prometheus 2.1

      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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      Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Exactly! It frustrates me that people assume property rights are natural rights. They can't be, they don't attach to a person. The concept of property is defined by _Society_ and only makes sense within the social space. Any property rights must dwell within the social sphere.
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Todd Barrett

      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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      Todd Barrett @thepiclord
      Replying to @MorlockP
      I've found a workable model is to assume that EVEN if we all land was originally homesteaded such that each person had absolute ownership rights, they would eventually *contract* away those rights simply for convenience' sake and said contracts would tend to run with the *land.*
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

          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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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻

          47/ he's not wronghttps://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1257351820369944577 …

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          Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻 @St_Rev
          This is true, but consider that the most primal form of social interaction is yelling, and yelling (slash peeing/pooping) is also the most primal definition of property. Even birds define territories by yelling. We just found a way to yell silently by putting ink (poop) on paper. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1257333718395637762 …
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 4 May 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lawyer Dog

          48/ I'm guessing that there aren't a ton of updates 😉https://twitter.com/TheClarksTale/status/1257402912600461312 …

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          Lawyer Dog @TheClarksTale
          Replying to @MorlockP
          J.H. Baker's "An Introduction to English Legal History" has several chapters on medieval land law. I have the Third Ed. but that's from 20+ years ago.
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        2. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 4 May 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Its the right-lib version of the exploitation of labor theory. "Each worker is *absolutely* entitled to the product of their labor!" "Each owner is *absolutely* entitled to their homesteaded property!" Okay, but here's a dozen+ reasons they would trade that entitlement away.

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        3. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 4 May 2020
          Replying to @thepiclord @MorlockP

          Yes trading away some rights to your property/product of your labor makes you less free, gives you less control, but in return you get *wealth.* An ideology that *prohibits* such trade is going to ultimately be even less free because wealth is a great freedom multiplier.

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