The protagonist being in a privileged position due to government seisuze of private property is certainly an excellent point. I just feel the state exercising power in the other direction, against productive ventures instead of property owners, may be a little too in vogue these days.
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year agoSure. Try it. Try making a railroad without eminent domain.
malaph@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Eniment domain doesn’t appear to be the problem here lmao
It’s more like
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except it wasn’t a new railroad company in the book.
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It is abundantly clear that we’re not talking about the details of the book anymore. We are talking about that one passage and how it relates to our current society.