John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJul 1, 2020

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Is that public, or private property?

How do you have the concept of theft, if there is no concept of property?

Is this just a slogan you have read, or have you given it some thought?

The tragedy of the commons is lack of respect for public property, as in everyone taking more than they give.

Society doesn't function without both public and private property, like a house has personal and family spaces. The question is how to decide what works best. For instance, government was private, but monarchy proved ineffective. Possibly we need to try public banking, as that seems to be the current source of much of the corruption.

Life is trial and error and thinking is hard. It's taken humanity hundreds of thousands of years to just get where we are and that's not all that far.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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