How have we all, generally intelligent people, been conned into thinking it's reasonable to work our asses off for 10 hours a day for several decades in order to transfer all the income that generates to somebody who owns a piece of land and has put some bricks on it. How do we all go along with the idea that it's ok for the society we live in to tolerate the transfer of inordinate wealth from non-landowners to landowners. How can we all have been caught up in this and agreed to go along with it?
You have to go back to history...
The first man who, having enclosed off a piece of land, formed the idea of saying "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, what wars, what murders, what miseries and horrors might have been spared the human race by someone who, pulling out the stakes or filling in the ditch, had cried out to his fellows, "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the trees belong to everyone and the earth belongs to no one."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, [broken link removed], 1754.
"Get off my land or I'll have you horsewhipped, you horrid little man."
Voltaire, in conversation, 1759.
How have we all, generally intelligent people, been conned into thinking it's reasonable to work our asses off for 10 hours a day for several decades in order to transfer all the income that generates to somebody who owns a piece of land and has put some bricks on it. How do we all go along with the idea that it's ok for the society we live in to tolerate the transfer of inordinate wealth from non-landowners to landowners. How can we all have been caught up in this and agreed to go along with it?
How have we all, generally intelligent people, been conned into thinking it's reasonable to work our asses off for 10 hours a day for several decades in order to transfer all the income that generates to somebody who owns a piece of land and has put some bricks on it. How do we all go along with the idea that it's ok for the society we live in to tolerate the transfer of inordinate wealth from non-landowners to landowners. How can we all have been caught up in this and agreed to go along with it?
What's the exact problem here? That wealth is transferred at all from non-landowner to landowner, or that an 'inordinate' amount of it is being transferred?
In what circumstance is all the income that has been earned over several decades transferred to a landowner? Is this about having to pay rent?
Sorry to have to ask but I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
The point is not about having to pay something to a landowner. Clearly the use of land, either temporarily (rent) or permanently (purchase) deserves something in return. The point is about the 'inordinate' amount of wealth that is transferred from non-landowner to landowner for the use or ownership of land.
The availability of (excess) credit in recent years has had something to do with cost of land/houses in Ireland.What determines what the cost of your land/house is though?
The availability of (excess) credit in recent years has had something to do with cost of land/houses in Ireland.
Do you want someone to give you a piece of their land to you for nothing? You should have bought land when it was cheap, no use in crying about it now.How have we all, generally intelligent people, been conned into thinking it's reasonable to work our asses off for 10 hours a day for several decades in order to transfer all the income that generates to somebody who owns a piece of land and has put some bricks on it. How do we all go along with the idea that it's ok for the society we live in to tolerate the transfer of inordinate wealth from non-landowners to landowners. How can we all have been caught up in this and agreed to go along with it?
Do you want someone to give you a piece of their land to you for nothing?
You should have bought land when it was cheap, no use in crying about it now.
.Massive wealth has been transferred to landowners. Why? What have landowners done to achieve this wealth? Generally people working are creating something and get paid an income commensurate with that. Landowners have to do very little (relatively speaking) for the same amount of money.
.Sure, price as determined by supply and demand is the model we have accepted. However there's great demand out there for pyramid 'savings' schemes, yet as a society we have deemed these unacceptable.
.To any rational person, does it make sense that they would get into a 'buy now, pay later' scheme whereby they work their ass off every day for decades in order to pay somebody for a small piece of land and some bricks miles from anywhere. It simply does not make sense.
. What exactly do you think landowners should do in order to somehow 'earn' their right to capitalise on their assets?
. If you for example had inherited land which someone then decided was very suitable for development what would you do about it?
. Sooner or later that money finds its way back into the economy to the betterment of all.
. Who BTW has perpetrated this 'con' or 'swindle' you are going on about? In what smoke-filled room did the meeting take place and who was present?
. There is absolutely no comparison between pyramid schemes (a scam designed to take money off the greedy and in particular the gullible) and legitimate asset-trading as I have just explained.
. How do you otherwise propose that people buy their houses? Save up for 30 years while 'wasting' money paying rent?.
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