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just because we "bought" a dog, paid $500 for it to someone our current system recognises the dog as property of, doesn't mean we can do anything the dog we recognise we still have some obligation to the dog it's the same with objects. and fruits and vegetables
just because i paid $10 for a vegetable, doesn't mean my obligation to it is over it didn't come from just the grocery story, or even the farmer it came from the earth, the same stuff my body is made of and living with it's nice to finally begin living in reciprocity with it
to think our obligations end with the purchase is to mistake the system of private property we have set up with reality it's take the lines that define and trace that system are all that exist, and let them define all that exists for us it's sad. it's untenable. and it's inaccurate
that system can't actually trace the need and relationships we have for attachment, with our mother, with humanity it can't become everything to us only a contingent system we have set up and live in. a subset of reality
on land https://t.co/worFIbHsNt
land can't actually be "purchased". what you can do is give money to someone, and they can agree to go away, or to sign a paper that will make a nation-state violently eject them if they don't go away but you're not paying for the land. it was never for sale https://t.co/q894DWSi5W