American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
earthhope.substack.com
American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
1–10 of 199 posts
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#2Property rights as conceived by Adam smith, John Locke, and even the most ruthless anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard does not acknowledge the right of ownership of land from merely seeing it and declaring everyone else is blocked from accessing the next place. In all such systems, ownership is first derived from developing or homesteading the land.
People that own undeveloped land purely for the reason of blocking someone else do not have any place in the capitalist system. It is nice someone is working on undoing that, through the mechanisms they have available.
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#3Fantastic. I am a native of Montana and in my lifetime there has been a huge move toward locking the public out of their own lands by closing off access, violating a century of norms between ranchers and farmers and the public. As the state becomes more popular from really dumb TV shows a larger and larger number of people who don't understand the land culture of Montana are slicing the state up for private monied interests and making public land their private playground. Refreshing to see it move the other way a little bit.
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#4> one of the only
That reminds me, I still have to put up the explanation at oneoftheonly.com for why this phrase doesn't make sense and is the new "could care less".
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#5> one of the only That reminds me, I still have to put up the explanation at oneoftheonly.com for why this phrase doesn't make sense and is the new "could care less".
doesn't make sense because it's a contraction of "one of the one-ly" ?
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#6> The group bought the land from two billionaire Texas brothers who’d kept the public locked out of one of the only western access roads into adjacent public land,
There's something uniquely evil about locking the public out of public lands.
I'm looking at you, too, Vinod Khosla.
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#7> one of the only That reminds me, I still have to put up the explanation at oneoftheonly.com for why this phrase doesn't make sense and is the new "could care less".
I would like a non-native speaker to weigh in, but I gloss it as "there are ONLY a few and this is ONE OF them" and have never found that confusing or contradictory.
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#8> The group bought the land from two billionaire Texas brothers who’d kept the public locked out of one of the only western access roads into adjacent public land, There's something uniquely evil about locking the public out of public lands. I'm looking at you, too, Vinod Khosla.
I thought that weird 'corner crossing' case or whatever with the hunters had rendered this sort of thing impossible? Is that not correct?
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#9> one of the only That reminds me, I still have to put up the explanation at oneoftheonly.com for why this phrase doesn't make sense and is the new "could care less".
irregardless, I think we understand what the author meant
Re: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
#10Property rights as conceived by Adam smith, John Locke, and even the most ruthless anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard does not acknowledge the right of ownership of land from merely seeing it and declaring everyone else is blocked from accessing the next place. In all such systems, ownership is first derived from developing or homesteading the land. People that own undeveloped land purely for the reason of bloc…
If you did not fight for it you don’t have ownership rights. The state owns the land. The rest of us are mere users of it.
For the many downvoters do this thought experiment: the neighbor country attacks and takes over your country. What is your ownership title worth? Exactly 0. Hence it was not yours to begin with.