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StephenDanna's avatar

Ownership. Hmmm. I've never given much thought to it, until this essay. It makes me think of slavery, posted wilderness, multimillion dollar estates and a number of other, sad things. You ask good questions in this essay, and I wonder/hope we can find answers regarding indigenous people's rights and such.

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Tait Sougstad's avatar

"Scarcity plays into all of it. Airlines might sell the same space twice, but a culture that worships private property sells a scarcity of dreams that most of us will never realize."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/16/ranch-land-west-billionaires/

Related, MT AG Knudsen's vote against the FWP Willow Creek acquisition to the Mt. Haggin WMA near Anaconda, because he "doesn't see subdivision as a bad thing" and "people from CA, from OR, from WA, aren't moving to MT to live in a high rise" and that he deems they "want a piece of MT" and "when is the FWP empire big enough?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53xAPEUPkI

Thanks for the shout-out!

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