• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Right after its independence from Britain, India brought the Zamidari Abolition Act which seized lands from feudal landowners and distributed it to farmers working under them. Such acts are now unthinkable for some reason, as if property rights are some divine gift.

    Corporations should not have rights to own residential land. Even for individuals there should be limits on the land they can own. Would you hoard water? Air? No, then how can you hoard land?

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      Good luck with that, they have significantly more rights and fewer responsibilities than people here. Hell, corporations actually enjoy a robust social safetynet here, unlike people. Speculative investment, aka gambling at the rich lad insider rigged casino, is taxed significantly less than actual productive labor.

      We humans without significant capital are second class citizens. If corporations could ride buses, we would be forced to give up our seats to protect our beloved economy.

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    The old fashioned word for “disaster capitalism” is “profiteering”.

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    Corporations are already attempting to buy up the land to put up timeshares. The ashes were still smoking when the vultures swooped in.

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    This is the real conspiracy theory here. Maybe not even a conspiracy but hopefully won’t become the awful truth. I hope we are getting them the relieve needed now and after the dust settles.

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    Genuinely thinking about moving to Maui if the cleanup drops prices enough.

    My house is more than double it’s value and im pretty sure I could break even to buy there, and I work remotely.