From: Robbie Lindauer (robblin@thetip.org)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 13:28:06 MDT
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 07:10 PM, Matt Welland wrote:
> This thread strikes an interesting cord for me. In my opinion one of
> the
> unaddressed (and unintended) consequences of unbridled capitalism(*)
> is that
> over time natural resources, i.e. land, slowly ends up in the hands of
> a few.
> Carried to its inevitable consequence all the land is owned by a few
> very
> rich people who literally can deny life to the remaining population.
> For an
> in-depth exploration of one way to solve this pop over to
> www.henrygeorge.org
> and do some reading.
The question is whether or not this is anything new? I don't think so.
As far as I can tell, the underlying property, means of production and
right to "be in any particular place" continues to be largely "owned"
by the rent-collectors backed by their military cohorts.
Not a significant change over feudal times.
R
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