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by MisterBastahrd 753 days ago
Every person should be able to have a right to say "This is me. This is where I live. I belong here." It's all fun and games until you've lived in one place for 15 years and your landlord decides to sell the place out from under your feet because a developer wants to build a high rise.
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Convince enough people that this should be a right, and its automatically a right. Rights are just made-up constructs that only exist in our head.
>Every person should be able to have a right to say "This is me. This is where I live. I belong here."

Why do you think every person should have an “right” to own property? It’s a nice utopian idea, but that’s not how a capitalist economy works.

Why do you think we need capitalist economies? It's almost as if you've just decided that the other thing must necessarily exist.
Same thing happens to homeowners with eminent domain. No one has unlimited entitlement to where they live.