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Ownership is a human invention. You can't take it with you, you're only ever really leasing it, and to the degree that you distribute it, what you're actually exercising is power to get other people do what you want (or delegating that power).

Ownership will exist for as long as there's support in governance and law for it. If ownership doesn't deliver enough benefit for the majority in society, then expect society to alter the terms of the bargain.



Seems like a problem humanity has been struggling with for millennia the way we’ve taken to burying people with their prized objects and riches.

What’s more, in many cases—like Egyptian pharaohs—the wealth was only inherited and not earned by way of creating anything except through maybe war and conquest.

The difference in perspective seems fundamental. Wonder if there’s been more vigorous research on the subject.




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