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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:18 -0700
Some of the reasons they don't own it is because it is government land
that you can't convert without an army of lawyers.
In other cases, you originally had owners who didn't have the 'right' to
subdivide, but they subdivide anyway.
It is interesting to note that for several centuries in Japan it was a
death sentence to sell land. They sold it anyway, and kept records.
In the US, we eventually got quite friendly with squatters and adverse
possession, and integrated out extra-legal arrangements and 'spontaneous
social contracts' into the official law.
Mr. Long, I think you'd particularly enjoy the De Soto work.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of
Dave
> Long
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
> Subject: RE: The Curse of India's Socialism
>
>
> > In
the
> > Philippines, getting legal title can take 20 years. In Egypt, about
80%
> > of the population in Cairo lives in places where they are officially
> > illegal.
>
> If the situation in Egypt is anything
> like the situation in the Philippines,
> it's because people (due to a strange
> desire for jobs) squat on land which
> they don't own.*
>
> For people to be able to buy their own
> land, capitalism must be healthy, but
> not triumphant; there need to be too
> many capitalists, not too few.
>
> (how well off were the major landowners
> in india before independence?)
>
> -Dave
>
> * In the US, we are not so friendly to
> our capitalists: adverse possession is
> only supposed to take 5 years.
>
> (How much do we owe to our frontiers?
> Heck, in Egypt didn't they pretty much
> invent geometry a few millenia ago to
> keep track of their property lines?)
>
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