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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 Native Americans Didn't Own the New World

Ownership is actually one of the main reasons we have society, am right? Because any time i's a scarce resource and more people want it than can get it, you better have rules that other people respect orar enforced. So then let's talk about the er population of north america, of europeans, when the native americans were already here. They had all the land, and and then they didn't. Oka will sow diseases and go, guns, germs and steel, you kno, wiped out. I do o 90 percent of em or whatever. But you know, with the talk of reparations these days, if anybody would have a case of

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