The concept of land ownership is wrong

God set up a system of land stewardship. Land could be sold or traded, but it had to revert the heirs of the family that originally owned it.

Ownership is only really necessary to the extent that the people who plant crops need to have the right to harvest them.

Ownership of things like mineral resources is more problematic. Since the resource is limited, a fee should be paid for extracting them, payable to some sort of common fund, or world trust, to be used for the common good, like for roads, dams, and bridges.

Truly exclusive ownership is only necessary for tools and personal effects.

Land is like sunlight, air, and water, and it is highly dependent on those other elements, which move around on the Earth with no limit. As many people are finding out, regulations to protect or use water and air effect the use and value of land. We cannot restrict control of air and water to people who own land, and people who own land are effected by the regulations.

Land, air, and water need to be considered the same sorts of things with regard to law and regulation. Since we can't make water and air private property, we need to make land common property.

When banks own all the land, it defeats the only true purpose of land ownership - that those who sow have the right to reap.

It would simplify matters to have those who work the land obtain the rights for a generation by paying into a common trust for road maintenance.

OP hit and ran ....

Bait Thread without a doubt!!

If the OP really believed in what they were staying they would have stuck around to explain the "Why's" a little better.

Honestly guys, under the communist system, they were hungry in Russia. Once they did away with it, they were exporting excess grain, and a lot of it.

Doesn't seem to want to carry out to the Nth degree to efficiently, eh???

Probably would depend on us humans next move as a species mostly.

I agree. We all share this planet. No one owns it. We should all have a plot enough for just that. I would be happy and not complain. I have more than that now and I would give it up for just that.

Disband Military, put that money in each respected country to doing that for:

3rd world poverty

2nd world

Homeless 1st world

Middle class 1st world

and up. That easy. End war and starvation in one swipe.

The ones that Have much more like the US, where I live will give more to Africa and other very poor countries.

Thread: The answer to the world "hate" and starvation problem.

It's not Communism.

God set up a system of distributed and periodically re-distributed land ownership, over fifty year periods.

It actually prevented the breakdown of land ownership by breaking up monopolies of the major resource. Fifty years allowed plenty of time to improve the land and reap the benefits, and it didn't prevent the farmer's children from buying the next fifty year contract if they were so inclined.

Open your eyes. You don't have to drive around this country for very long before you will see millions of acres of wasteland, houses deteriorating, empty factories. The people who own the land aren't doing very well with it. The uses of the land have been wasteful and stupid almost everywhere. Who owns it? Mostly banks. Absentee landlords.

It is wasted almost everywhere. Might as well let people try to do something with it - get creative. The kind of reset God instituted is long overdue.

Under this system, people are going hungry, and land is wasted.

I guarantee if it is wasteland, then it is for some other reason. People have been trying to make a living off the land since the US existed. Boom and bust cycles have been part of it. So has private land ownership. Because of it, we have been a big exporter of excess food. Go buy some land and try what you are espousing, because I am pretty sure you don't see the pitfalls.

There are great negatives on both sides of the fence. Without land ownership someone can try to claim something you worked very hard on but on the other hand with land ownership people with great wealth can acquire giant areas of resources such as fresh water and hoard it from the rest of humanity.

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You are ALL forgetting the most important thing: no one owns the land they supposedly buy or supposedly own. If youd on't pay those pesky property taxes, they take your land and auction it off just like your house, your cars, everything. So you really don't own jack shit.
Do you?

Welcome to Hell!

Enjoy your stay!

The only thing is, the word lease implies a lot of money for temporary, and you can't pass it on to your children, who will not be owning anything at current prices, unlike my grandfather who's morgage was less than a years salary or my parents.

Instead of doing that, the first step is to get rid of money and slavery. Thats what it takes.

What you're talking about is just one more thing the elite would like to see.