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0 pointsballenf5y ago0 comments

The concept of private property or ownership predates all government.

Of course governments and police rarely get involved with small property disputes unless part of something larger like an assault.

Smartphone locking is similar to NFTs in that it is an extrajudicial process of enforcing property rights.

Likewise we also have algorithms that can take away all your photos and emails with basically no recourse to government or person.

NFTs just don’t seem that different to many things we’re already doing.

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kubanczyk5y ago

As long as you don't put an armed guard around, the property depends only on the law. The law depends mostly on the population paying attention to the jurys' verdicts.

Without that, there is nothing stopping me from selling/buying/giving/using/renting a gif, a building, a village, or a city.

E.g. what apes have is not a property. You only keep stuff as long as your alpha doesn't want it. That's a different concept.

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