Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Who Owns the World? And What They Could Do With It at Any Moment" video.

  1. And if you find land and claim it as your own country, that doesn't mean other countries will recognize your sovereignty. Many countries today have different political maps as they don't recognize various countries. Hence why governments exist at all to provide ownership rights in the first place. Because without a commune entity, ownership is simple the last person standing after being killed or pushed off the land by someone else wanting that take that land over.
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  2. Little deep on ownership/property rights. Fact is, property rights only exist based on sovereignty of whatever countries' laws you happen to be in at any given time. Without a country, your right to own anything is based on your ability to defend your self physically from being ran off the land, or being killed so someone else can take whatever land or stuff you may have. And places where no laws are, you're under international treaty law such as on the open sea, whatever vessel flag is flown or aircraft registration, that country's laws apply for property ownership at or over international waters: murder at sea in international waters on an American ship or aircraft, you will be tried in American courts with the additional possibility if the victim was from another country, some countries have treaties where the US would cooperate with the other country, to have right to try the accused, and some countries without treaties with the flag ship country, would make protest to have the accused be extradited, whether the flagship country follows through, is up to that country and its own procedures. Find land that is unclaimed territory, it's whoever kills you or forces you off by force and keeps the land... hence why governments exist. So people don't just walk in at gun point and tell you to fuck off or die. Interestingly, if the victim was originally citizen of a particular country, that nation may come after you for murder, and just consider that land to be international maritime or unclaimed territorial land, called Special Maritime or Territorial Jurisdiction. The US would try the person in federal court if committed in international waters, or in unclaimed land (all land currently is claimed, besides series of islands in the various oceans). So if evidence is available for murder and other crimes, even if you did it in your own claimed "country", you might not get away with it. In the US you own the land with many rules based on where the land is located; zoning for farming, commercial, residential, etc. And further agreement laws based on a home owners association, and some states give such HOAs large power of agreement authority on specific upkeep to the point such as my brother's house, they must have at least one tree growing in their front house, or they face a monetary penalty they must pay to the HOA. Additional, laws such as eminent domain mean widening a road, or whatever reason to the public good deemed by whatever government entity: federal, state, county, city, etc. can take your land, but most eminent domain laws require compensation by fair market value based on the value of the land being taken at the time its being taken, often they'll negotiate an extra amount of money to cover moving costs, and effects of surrounding area of taking such land if it causes land value to go up quickly nearby, so you can afford to still buy a place near where you once did. And then there's property taxes. But they're much cheaper than rent, by quite a bit. Opened up a deep topic about property rights. Almost all law is derived on the topic. It's just about the entire point of civilization/government in the first place.
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