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DESCRIPTION:Nothing in the public realm could be more foolish than asserting that some 
 have a superior right over others in occupying planet Earth. We might say 
 nothing could be more offensive, or more arrogant, or more snobbish, or 
 more absurd . . . but none of these feelings takes us directly to the hard 
 economic reality of being foolish.\n\nIn saying that some have a legal 
 right to exclude others from use of a portion of planet Earth without 
 having to somehow duly compensate those excluded from their self-evident 
 right to use Earth, upon equal terms with those holding a paper title, we 
 are in fact condemning an enormous portion of humanity to pay others for 
 their mere existence. That's economic foolishness.\n\nOh, it's true there 
 are large areas of the globe where one may practically live location-rent 
 free, out of sight of society or the nominal land owner, but human beings 
 are social beings, and whenever two or more human beings desire to make use 
 of the same bit of Earth, value arises. Value that can be measured in 
 willingness to spill blood or in the exchange of economic opportunity cost. 
 \n\nWhen one human being arranges with another to take possession of an 
 urban parcel, that doesn't satisfy the rest of humanity in its interest in 
 that location. In such cases--and they are ubiquitous--the equal right to 
 make a living from life on this planet is denied masses of people.\n\nCome 
 along on a free walking tour exploring the role the privatization of 
 location values plays in sustaining racism, low wages, massive debt, and 
 perennial housing challenges.\n\nBy walk's end you'll have a clear 
 understanding of what political agendas are all about--conveying privilege 
 in location and resource values. We'll be looking at 11 San Francisco 
 social movements, but current events in Israel/Palestine, Ukraine, Haiti, 
 and Sudan supply all the merit this way of looking at things matters.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/12/18867958.php
SUMMARY:Real Estate: a walking tour
LOCATION:meets in the lobby of the American Youth Hostel\n312 Mason Street\nSan 
 Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/12/18867958.php
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