I inherited three properties. I pay a property management company to do everything on them, all I get is a regular check in the mail. Please explain how I have earned this?
I am completely healthy while some are born into wheelchairs. I did not earn any of it.
You didn't answer the question.
Yes, but that does not need to be morals, values, ethics or ideology.
Instead I prefer Kant´s idea of the categorical imperative whereby the question only is if a society following specific rules would satisfy its members long term. It is more pragmatic as it shifts the question from should/shouldn't to does it work out.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-...
you want a dictatorship? that's how you get a dictatorship.
Luck is part of part -- in economics we call it risk. And without risk there is no economic development.
Somebody in your past took a risk and passed profits from that risk down to you. Trying to take the ability to pass that down is both immoral and bad economics.
If they didn't want you to inherit them, presumably they would have done something about that.
Just admit that the world isn't fair and that some people are lucky and you don't live in a meritocracy, please.
Nothing is unearned, except perhaps gov't welfare.
He said he'd give them a cut of the rent.
> How did your ancestor get to own the property in the first place?
So his parents earned it, not him.
Doing genealogy, one of the most interesting ancestors I have actually got mentioned in a discussion in parliament for his real estate shenanigans. His wife had inherited some small but vaguely defined land from her first husband. He then became mayor and land assessor, and drew up ridiculously generous borders (and low tax assessments) for that land. No one thought to stop him. At one point during a sale, some officials had commented that they couldn't find that he had title to this land, but they didn't follow up. By the time they complained about it in parliament, it was two generations and many land transfers ago so they didn't think it was worth it to try to unwind it.
Doesn't this mean that the problem is inheritance, not (only) land ownership? But I imagine taximg inheritance is very unpopular with everyone.