Nick Szabo  🔑

Just another reason why I'm no fan of the State.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1027111733142253568 …

Same legal system is what mainly enforces your property & contract rights as a landlord in the first place. But you have to help them by objecting in a timely manner when people violate them, else (after a long period of such non-objection) you lose that particular part of right.

Yeah, I'm not to fond of that legal system.

A more populist example: Khosla (founder of Sun Micro) sued to stop surfers from walking on his property to get to the beach. The beach is public property, and people had been using his land as an access path for decades -- the previous owner allowed it.

In court, Khosla argued that the property shouldn't even be subject to California law, because it was granted to a prior, prior owner via Mexican land rights. He won that case, but then got sued by the Surfrider foundation, and now it's going to the supreme court.

In the world we live in individuals do not own land. The State does.

in a world where individuals do own land, how do they enforce that ownership? with their own guns?