Or make it a package deal, and voluntarily sell yourself into slavery.
I guess you could eventually buy yourself back, assuming that after you (the owner) sells you (the property), you (the property) can legally accumulate any cash, and then actually do it in a rigged game.
Or we could just say the people aren’t members of the class of property.
IIRC there are right libertarians who seriously believe that voluntary slavery should be allowed.
Definitely.
Walter Block and Robert Nozick in particular. They claim it’s a thought experiment about bodily autonomy, but it’s really a way to bring back the feudalism and company towns they and their billionaire patrons so adore.
People aren’t property. Yet another thing that the USA literally fought a war over.
“Voluntary” is such a bad joke. After sucking everything else of value to the top of the pyramid, the oligarchs would come for what remains. A few hundred slave owners, and the rest of us.
(It has a picture of Lincoln, so it must be an accurate quote.)
They actually bought a bunch of waterfront property.
The waterway there is the Sacramento river. It’s not shown on the map, but the Southern waterfront plots is where it merges the San Joaquin river in Sherman Lake. There are a bunch of little islands there.
Yeah, that’s a weird image.
YOU are valuable! YOU are worth money! That money should be working for YOU! Sign here to borrow money against the equity in your organs
Sort of like a reverse mortgage?
“We’re here for your liver.”
… and with your excellent credit, you can also borrow money against the equity in your children’s organs
The Romans did that. The practice is featured in the Spartacus series with Jai Courtney’s character Varro. He is a Roman citizen who sold himself into slavery to pay gambling debts as a gladiator. It doesn’t end well for him.
Well, it’s remarkably simple to do that. When you merely wish to bury bombs, there is no limit to the size. After that they are connected to a gigantic complex of computers. Now then, a specific and clearly defined set of circumstances, under which the bombs are to be exploded, is programmed into a tape memory bank.
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