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by 0x27081990 3313 days ago
>free money through rent

What about the money that you spent buying/restoring/maintaining land instead of doing something else?

There's also risks when renting your private property. What if they don't want to leave? You can't kick them out, you need to begin a trial and justice is very slow (it takes at least 2 years and as long as 10 years in Argentina and I've heard it's the same on most countries of the EU). And it's not like you'll get your money back (the losses of not renting that property while it was occupied plus judicial expenditures).

I agree that there are people who own lots of land and properties, but it's their right because they used their money for it, instead of doing something else.

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Is it, is land ownership a human right or derived from such? You can't just counter the claim with the opposite argument, which ammounts to claiming payment would settle the issue.