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gardnrtoday at 12:07 AM1 replyview on HN

I have a suspicion most Libertarians are actually something else but who haven't realized it yet. When you really dig into it: idea of private property (as in owning land and charging people rent for using it) is akin to slavery (owning people and extracting labor from them). The pre-colonial indigenous structures of managing societies were much more aligned with my internal values but they are poorly defined in modern vernacular and we don't have a good "common vocabulary" to talk about how we might want to do things in a different way.


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GaryBlutotoday at 6:44 AM

> idea of private property (as in owning land and charging people rent for using it) is akin to slavery (owning people and extracting labor from them)

Utter nonsense. Do you think eating fruit is akin to cannibalism because they both involve the consumption of something?