Actually I looked up the real story of Johnny Appleseed and he was more about making hard cider and selling land. π
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Well, how do you like them apples?
I like them free
If you made public fruit trees, someone would try to pick them clean and sell it at a fruit stand 20 miles away.
Yeah I think the only way around that would be to plant so many trees that the fruit is basically worthless. Probably wouldn't work in places with high population density
Rotting fruit is also a massive problem :) One of my relative had this HUGE fucking pear tree. When it hit pear season, they were begging people to come and take all they could. They would beg food pantries to organize, come and pick.
Then let's get rid of money.
Well, yeah; trees planted from random apple seeds are most likely to bear crabapples. Nobody was going to be eating them.
When I lived in the city, we caught people trespassing all the time stealing our fruit off our trees.
They would walk up our private driveway, and walk on our path near our front door, then load BAGS full and leave. I called them out as thief a few times, but those Mother F@$@ people just give a smug look back. These people were Pure evil. So happy to move to the country.
Before getting off notoriously racist Nextdoor, I did see a few folks complaining about this, they couldn't harvest their own fruit crops because homeless folks would just come grab it all, usually before it was ripe enough to eat. This kicked off a big battle over who deserved the fruit more. Arguments that would have been better directed at the political leaders here who refuse to provide enough resources for the homeless. When we have to debate whether people can keep the fruit of their own trees, but we aren't building shelters or allocating food at the macro level, then we have fallen deep in to the libertarian trap.
Itβs people with Mercedes and BMW that steal from our trees, not homeless.
It's pretty incredible, at least in the areas in the US where i have lived, to see who feels entitled to things and who does not.
They didn't get rich by paying their fair shair...
Did you ever try peeing on them?
I imagine they walk too fast.
I wonder if that person would consider foraging for mushrooms and berries in the forest to be stealing as well.
It can be.
Poaching on the king's land, you are!
Not all forests are public, and laws vary by location! Imagine that.
Bro literally says "in public spaces".
Also; fuck private property and fuck the laws that protect it.
Can you point to the "bro" who "literally" said "in public spaces" in this thread?
Yup, this whole ownership thing is totally fubar!
(and yes, I do prefer to own things too, but there could be a healthy middle ground)
private, public, and personal property are three different concepts. most anarcho-communists have no objection at all to personal property
There are literally zero leftist ideologies who have a problem with personal property.
BuT My tOoThBrUsH!!!
that why billionaires are good π§
Yes, I'm just saying before the 'they're taking your stuff!' people come out π
saaame lol. it's amazing how certain political positions are like "you know how civilization is fundamentally structured around violence? what if⦠we just⦠didn't?"
and then people are like "THEY'RE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, GET THEM!!!"
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