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The recent decision of the Supreme Court supporting the right of governments to condemn property for broader economic development is part of a long history in which we have “legitimated” the confiscation of the possessions of others.
Almost all of us who own property are heirs of a legal system that supported the rights of settlers to own lands taken from Native Americans.
Such legitimization poorly masks a kind of self-centered cheating.
After property owners have been paid a “fair” price for condemned property, some entrepreneurs will make handsome profits that they will claim as their own possessions.
