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Jiro comments on Open Thread, Jun. 1 - Jun. 7, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 03 June 2015 02:58:10PM 3 points [-]

You'd immediately lose all economy of scale in agriculture, for one. This would be extremely bad.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 June 2015 03:04:30PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but that is implementation detail. You can still have larger entities by these individual owners cooperating, or even collectively using their property. The end result is similar to a corporation with many shareholding workers. A better argument would be that people will not invest if they will lose the property. But even that has a fairly natural solution: hand it over to your kids, they will keep working it.

I am not arguing this is a super good idea, just arguing it does not have the usual immediately glaring flaws and deserves some consideration.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 06 June 2015 10:28:31PM 1 point [-]

A better argument would be that people will not invest if they will lose the property.

You still have no way to get outside investors.