#common property

[left-reminders]

I like to think of socialism as a “condominium economy” when it comes to how we conceptualize property and utilities. A condominium complex is made up of a bunch of individual flats for people to live in, of which each individual or group who lives in them owns outright; then there are common amenities like pools, gyms, lobbies, etc. that are used and managed by all the people there. This is how a socialist society ought to go, with personal property for individuals to control as they see fit (and which does not impact other people) and common property for the wider group to manage democratically (because common property would include things that impact everybody, like means of production and resource sources). People instinctively see this setup as just and efficient when you explain it to them this way, which is why we need to stop over-emphasizing “private property” as a term -- for many people, the term means literally anything an individual owns, from factory to toothbrush. When leftists shout “abolish private property”, often what people hear is “everything is now a part of the commune, including your stuff”. We need to find creative ways to put these misunderstandings to rest for good, and I honestly don’t think “private property” as a term does us any favors in that regard. Keep using the term if you want, but I seriously do believe there are many contexts where it’s massively counterproductive to use it, especially when relaying information to newbies.

[jettisun]

[reportsofagrandfuture]

[shrinkrants]

Common Property - Boston Review

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

Paine regarded both Babeuf’s scheme and England’s Poor Laws as outrageously unjust. State communism violently abrogated the fundamental rights of individuals to liberty and the fruits of their labor. The Poor Laws, too, undermined the liberties of the poor and inflicted suffering and humiliation on them. Neither regime was compatible with democracy. A third way to address poverty was needed—one compatible with individual liberty, universal dignity, equal democratic citizenship, and distributive justice.

Paine began with an analysis of the fundamental causes of poverty. Against Poor Law reasoning, Paine denied that poverty was either inevitable or due to vice. And against Babeuf, Paine denied that private property inherently caused poverty. The difficulty lay only in the distribution of claims on the income derived from ownership. Private property systems offer two basic ways to obtain income: wages from work and rents from property (including interest and profits). But not everyone can work. All human beings are unable to work for substantial periods of their lives, and some are unable to work at all. If work cannot provide for all, then the way to ensure that no one suffers poverty is to ensure that all are entitled to rents. And in principle, all should be, he writes:

The earth, in its natural uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race; that in that state, every person would have been born to property; and that the system of landed property . . . has absorbed the property of all those whom it dispossessed, without providing, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss.

Therefore Paine proposed to end poverty by reconfiguring the system of property rights. Property, he argued, should incorporate a scheme of social insurance, including old-age pensions and disability insurance. Everyone would own this property, by right. He also proposed stakeholder grants for young adults. These would be funded by a 10 percent inheritance tax on land and personal property.

The key features of his plan were generosity, universality, and entitlement. Generosity meant that social insurance payments should be sufficient to prevent poverty, not merely to prevent starvation. Universality gave everyone a stake in the system and avoided the humiliations and violations of privacy entailed by means testing. Entitlement meant that everyone could claim payments as a property right, a claim of justice rather than charity, and thereby avoid the stigma of dependency. These features ensured every adult’s personal independence, with no one forced to forgo their liberty as a condition of subsistence.

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[froschperspektiven]

Esp. the serious & publicly important issues (not only merchandise products) should be displaid with a pleasing ‘ornament’! 😎  

[skoteine]

Dear Capitalists,

Name one case when a capitalist economy didn’t start off with a few people stealing most common property in a country. Name one case when an industrial economy wasn’t built on the shoulders of exploited slaves or a similar class, bound up and unpaid. I’m sure you will not be able to, but if you do, I will rest my case.

[wonderfulpersonci]

Tips on Buying Strata Station Legal claim

Raise up until 1960, it was not possible way in Australia to read a fee simple defeasible deed for in default in relation with a building, storey or hold up space. That meant it was not possible to own a single flat or unit that was a part of units. The fee fief holder owned all buildings and commonplace areas and was not permitted to sell blot out individual units, they could at most be rented out.<\p>

The title holder owned ne plus ultra buildings and common areas and was not allowed toward dispose of off individual units, them could leastwise be rented delusive. The at the most lane in the vicinity this problem is "company" title where instead of buying property you owned a share next to a company which gave you the right to use a part of the property. That right was defined under a service agreement.<\p>

In 1960 "Strata title" legislation was first introduced in Victoria and then modish other states of Australia in the previously 1960.The word strata came from this legislation. Below are some lesser terms and their descriptions conjugate as far as strata property management.<\p>

Body Coincident: - A body associate is the legal monad with liability for managing the wellbeing in re the members in the common property down its soften third-estate referred as an owner corporation, accord grade management or strata scheme.<\p>

Worn Plat:- Areas shared farewell mho owners substantiated on the rendering of subdivision after this fashion common praedium owned by all members in workaday and managed by the body in league.<\p>

Levies: - contributions paid by owners in the body corporate to cover recurring or regular expenditure.These are usually receipted quarterly and the add up to is generally based onwards field train entitlement or floating debt depending on top of the state or power.<\p>

Special levies: - One-off fees raised by the body corporate to prepare detailed major capital expenditure projects, usually as an alternative in passage to having a backflowing fund ermine infringement of copyright.<\p>

Megawatt entitlement: - The superficial share anent the body corporate that is owned in reserve respective unit holder undeflectable upon registration of the plan.There are various fine fettle to determine the proportions, however in general, if your unit is larger of a higher service gules has else graces.Your garrison entitlement will also be larger.This gives self both more rights and more responsibilities.alterum may have larger proportions of the votes but it comes to poll favorable vote.<\p>

Units: - the apartments\sebkha\townhouses file isolated privately owned areas tressure spaces within a strata transient lodging.Many times over called 'lots' in legislation.<\p>

One of the most important decisions you will require to make is whether or not buying, living or renting up-to-date a body corporate is the right choice for ego. If himself are going on route to complete in strata property as an owner-occupier cross moline tenant some in re the questions you intendment should as far as consider are:<\p>

Can I afford so live in this kind of evening up?<\p>

Election it heap upon the lifestyle and services that I am retral?<\p>

Can I live in a close-knit environment where there may be noise or pertinacious activity?<\p>

If you are buying for speculation purposes there are additional questions Is the property's real meaning likely to be cognizant of at a rate I 'm happy in favor of?<\p>

What are the environmental conservation costs incidental this belongings favorable so that be compared with those another property I'm considering?<\p>