the ABC

[Georgi Guninski]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:46:28PM -0600, Mirimir wrote:
> On 05/27/2015 10:00 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
> > 2015-05-28 12:59 GMT+09:00 Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com>:
> > 
> >>         Last time I checked the stuff that can be owned(i. e.
> >>         property) like say a hamburguer a car or a house,  cannot
> >>         abandon me, destroy me or shape me to its liking.
> >>
> > 
> > The joke's on you! Ownership is defined in constitutions, and is not a real
> > thing at all!
> 
> According to governments, yes. But according to me, I own anything that
> I can fuck with :) That is, "ownership" is defined operationally.
>

This appears complicated to me.

Are you familiar with "nationalisation"?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization

Nationalization (American English), (British and Commonwealth spelling
nationalisation) is the process of taking a private industry or private
assets into public ownership by a national government or state.
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It already happened on at least several occasions in the real world.

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