We've let private ownership have its turn, with tragic results. How can we steward land, resources, and full-featured human communities without extraction?
This is great, I want to read it every day for a week! Just to make sure I squeeze out everything I can from it.
Although not totally in line with your theme, forming a cooperative or other legal entity hedges against unfortunate incidents by corporate neighbors continuing unresolved. During my trip, I stayed with people (wwoofing, airbnb) that had their well water contaminated by a corporate neighbor. My hosts were surprised (and hurt, betrayed) that the sense of urgency for resolution was not shared by both parties. If you have two non-human legal entities, once the facts of a case are established, insurance companies will usually push for settlement - you know, within a normal person's lifetime. And if one party is actually human, well... It usually has a different kind of end. It's a weird dichotomy. The triggers for damage are very human, but there is nothing human about resolving it.
We're definitely stronger when we work together. Thanks for the post!
Thank you Ben, for your time and energy that you put into this piece.
This is great, I want to read it every day for a week! Just to make sure I squeeze out everything I can from it.
Although not totally in line with your theme, forming a cooperative or other legal entity hedges against unfortunate incidents by corporate neighbors continuing unresolved. During my trip, I stayed with people (wwoofing, airbnb) that had their well water contaminated by a corporate neighbor. My hosts were surprised (and hurt, betrayed) that the sense of urgency for resolution was not shared by both parties. If you have two non-human legal entities, once the facts of a case are established, insurance companies will usually push for settlement - you know, within a normal person's lifetime. And if one party is actually human, well... It usually has a different kind of end. It's a weird dichotomy. The triggers for damage are very human, but there is nothing human about resolving it.
We're definitely stronger when we work together. Thanks for the post!