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by falcolas 606 days ago
It's not even ownership. Not when the government can take back your property for virtually any reason.

It's a bit of a sore spot for me, when the local city tried to condemn my parent's land for $30k - less than a quarter of what they paid for it back in the 70's.

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> It's not even ownership. Not when the government can take back your property for virtually any reason

As you observed, ownership is never absolute. It's a social construct. Evertyhing from squatters' rights to condemnation by public officials to private foreclosure show that.