In a way, this is how property ownership works now. “Owning a home” is a license from the government. Obviously, you’re license will be revoked if you don’t pay taxes. Also if the government is overthrown, your deed won’t be worth much. (ask a Palestinian).
I’ve always thought it was weird that a person could own land. This is a ridiculous idea from a geologic perspective. IDK if it’s real, but I’ve heard that Native Americans though that a person claiming ownership of the land was like a flea claiming ownership of the dog.
If a dog gets overly-infested with fleas, with no intervention, the fleas will win.
And such is the condition of the planet, overly-infested with capitalist-minded humans.
They say that, and to a degree it’s true, but we also spent millenia murdering the shit out of each other for being in each other’s territory
The government doesn’t set the price of lots or land, that’s determined by the seller. A deed will still be worth its value unless total lawless anarchy takes over. If the government is overthrown, the price of land is only effected by the stability of the currency.
Ownership is a legal fiction that doesn’t exist outside government.
Being able to occupy or defend something isn’t the same as owning either. A bear can defend it’s territory without property rights. A goose can shit in your front yard without an easement.
Owning land is like owning your phone. If Apple controls it more than you, is it really yours? If the HOA has more say, who’s home is it?
That guy sure is annoying looking.
Maybe he’s a nice guy, but maybe he argues with every point in your philosophy 101 class.
I thought it was Kurt Angle
Defo Kurt Angle…
I did too ,without the scalp muscles
That’s just renting when the landlord sells the house.
Unless you live in a slightly more evolved country, where a simple ownership transfer is not enough to kick out the renters and you actually have rights. Here you need to prove that you either want to use it for yourself ( 2 years minimum, government checks up on that) or it is somehow damaged beyond repair.
It’s rather common here that people get paid 10-100k euros just so they move out of an apartment ( this is per flat/apartment, so numbers can get huge for bigger buildings) and the owner can sell the empty old building to an investor/developer. Shows what insane profit margins are still to be had, if they make profits despite that.
This usually happens with old and cheap buildings in now gentrified, suddenly fancy neighborhoods.
Shows about home “ownership” in 2040.
It’s called an HOA and taxes
I’m pretty sure this happens now with HOAs.
No it doesn’t
They can boot people front their homes for violating the TOS, so that’s pretty close.
No, it isn’t. Violating bylaws and revoking licenses on a whim aren’t similar.
An HOA can absolutely foreclose on your home if they fine you into oblivion.
To add onto your comment, Last Week Tonight’s segment on it: https://youtu.be/qrizmAo17Os?si=EKTSDp1uTeCTrJpO
I never said otherwise? That’s irrelevant to whether a HOA is similar to the meme.
HOAs enact and enforce bylaws just as arbitrarily as any license agreement. HOAs were the first thing that came to mind when I saw this, and I’m clearly not alone.
Just because other people agree with a false equivalency doesn’t make it true.
Enforcing bylaws and licensing agreements are two different thing. This meme is about the funimation library issue, which is nothing like an HOA.
So like…rentals.
The same people will be owning the houses in 16 years, why would they change the terminology?
Already happening in the UK
https://www.lgcplus.com/finance/tenants-served-no-fault-evictions-to-pay-debt-to-council-07-02-2024/
That’s rental though. This really does happen though, buying a leasehold but not the freehold is basically buying a licence to live in your house from the person who owns the land.
Stop giving them ideas
If only someone would start a lawsuit against this exact practice…
You all need to look up what a land lease is, and the havoc it can cause for condo owners in places like CA.
Home “ownership” on September, 9th, 2012:
“It is my sad duty to inform you of a four-foot restriction on humanoid height.”
“I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold. It’s said now that people will be shorter in height; they can fit twice as many in the same building site (they say it’s alright). Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow, in the interest of humanity, they’ve been told they must go—told they must go-go-go-go.”
Own assets. Ownership can feel stupid in a world failing, but if you have money, buy assets. Actual things.
Don’t use 3rd party cloud services for home automation.
Enshittification ensures the company will pull the rug on you some day.
Learned that the hard way when my garage door opener stopped working.
