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grumboid's avatar

Billboards:

I think there's a problem with the phrase "their own land". I think it's weird to have a system where a private citizen can just "own" all possible uses of a section of the planet forever. I understand that libertarians are really into this, and I understand that our government often emits this situation as a supported outcome, but I still think it's wrong.

What is the fair price for "all possible uses of this section of the planet forever"? I don't know what someone originally paid for it but there's no way it was enough.

Anyway I think it's entirely ideologically consistent to allow people to use "their" land for some purposes and not others. And we already do quite a lot of this, and some of the existing land-use regulations are pretty bad, but that doesn't mean we should throw out the whole concept.

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Cabot O'Callaghan's avatar

Hahahaaa...A post of pure wondering. My answer to all questions will now be “fuck the billboards!”

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