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166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman)

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Origins of Property

Michael Wolraich: Law is massively overrated. Almost all conflicts we have about who gets what and why, are not handled through law. When you lose something or find something, n when you, you know, are on some one's land, you usually just work it out. He says that ownership traces back two hunter gatherer tribes, and actually even deeper to our animal territoriality. It actualy is a very direct link a from animals to those hunter gatherer groups. Those battles weren't expressed in codified law, but they were very familiar. They would look very familiar to kids to day on a playground, if you could bring them back a hunter gather or

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