Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking?
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe real propaganda is money.
Like, whoever designed the idea of rent (which is basically a safe place to perform the biological function of sleep and store your stuff).
You don’t own a damn thing anymore, nor do I. But for real, whoever invented the concept of rent, invented the concept of taxing humans for the right to sleep in a safe space.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The house around me, and the dirt under it, yes.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you pay property taxes?
You don’t own it.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You can debate that in court. But if you steal a bucket of my dirt, the police will come, take it from you, and give it back to me. I’d call that ownership.
philthi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wow, the police where you live must be either pretty good, or pretty bored. If someone stole a bucket of dirt from my garden and I rang the police about it, I genuinely think they’d laugh at me… Honestly so would I.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where I’m from, they’d probably confiscate said dirt as evidence, charge the person with trespassing and some sort of misdemeanor property theft, and you’d never see your dirt again, as it was evidence in a crime.
cmhe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am against the concept of individuals or legal entities owning property, it belong to everyone. However, if you take something from the society in order to be allowed to used it exclusively for a while, you ought to give something back, that is what tax is for.