I have a dozen colonial nations in North America. Since entering the age of revolutions, one of them will declare independence and I fight a war against only the one colony with the rest of my colonies helping me even though they’re disloyal.
As soon as I peace out, another one declares independence, and so on. It feels super dumb.
I’ve seen people say that the right to exclude defines ownership, but that would mean tenants own their homes because they have the right to exclude.
This seems like a bad definition of ownership. Surely the profit from a property matters in determining ownership.
I posed a question about land the other day in this sub and found a surprising number of people asserting that property cannot be collectively owned, that even corporations or joint stock companies are impossible in ancapistan.
Is this true? It seems obviously bad to disallow the main engine that allows capitalism to work.
The specific context is that I asserted the ownership claims on land in England are all descended from the Norman conquest, and thus illegitimate. (I don’t know if this is literally true, it’s a thought exercise).
Because the original specific people who each specific piece of land was stolen from cannot be known, I asserted the land belongs to the people of England collectively, but I got pushback on the idea land could ever been owned collectively. I’ve also read that villages have worked land collectively in history.
I don’t really see any reason why a village couldn’t own its land collectively, or why a joint stock company couldn’t work in ancapistan.
If a society whose land was extremely concentrated in the offspring of violent conquerors (England after 1066 for instance), wouldn’t abolishing the state cement those people in their improperly obtained land? Wouldn’t a form of redistribution be necessary to prevent a landed aristocracy from capturing most of the value of society without contributing to it?
Because a state could always theoretically redistribute land, people without land may resist abolishing the state.
Playing as France, I have a small west African colonial nation.
They had an uprising of natives which seceded with the entire country, my colonial nation no longer has any territory.
Obviously my colonial nation can’t defend itself as it has no income or manpower.
How can I stabilize my colonial nations from internal rebellions?