An Australian flag that recognises the First Nations
Every jubilee mechanism surveyed on Earth shares a structure that, looking back, was really a workaround. Land can’t be rebuilt, so the reset has to fall on the claim instead — a fixed calendar date on which rights change hands, negotiated, resisted, occasionally captured, but always, underneath it, a single moment everyone has to agree … Read more
Every land tenure system surveyed on Earth shares one assumption so basic it’s easy not to notice it at all: the asset persists, and only the claim on it needs to be periodically bounded. Leviticus 25 doesn’t reset the land — it resets who has a claim to farm it. Swiss Baurecht doesn’t rebuild the … Read more
Every society that allows credit or land tenure to exist runs into the same structural fact eventually: claims compound faster than the real activity underneath them can sustain, and something eventually has to give. What differs, case to case, era to era, is whether “something has to give” arrives as a designed, scheduled event that … Read more
There is a map most of us carry around without examining it. On one end sits communism: the state owns everything, and the individual owns nothing. On the other end sits capitalism, and at its purest, freehold ownership: the individual owns everything, outright and forever, and the state has no claim on it at all. … Read more