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> but we probably don't want to live in a communist country where the government owns every home and everyone is renting either.

Yes, like the famously communist state of, checks notes, Singapore.

Sorry for the snarky reply, but I don't think calling the breaking of monopoly power/taxing unearned rents is communism.

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Is that how it works in Singapore? I know in China you lease land from the government for 50 or 100 years. I do think it's important to be open to ideas, and I think there probably ought to be redistribution of wealth, particularly when it comes to land ownership. That has to be balanced with some minimum set of rights so that people can't be randomly evicted because people in power want that land, and that when people are evicted, they receive fair compensation.

It's not so different than how the US operates, except the lease is called a deed and it's term is indefinite. The government can still take "your" land away if you stop paying taxes or they need it for something else.

The most objectionable part of real-world communism is the authoritarianism that goes along with it. Singapore is extremely authoritarian.

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