NoeBoties_Fool on Nostr: I think I was captivated most by the description of it as a prison more than a ...
I think I was captivated most by the description of it as a prison more than a question of ownership/property and economic value. My point was basically that this view is fairly relative and subjective. Relative to the amount of wealth one has. Relative to how much one values 'things' individually, and both tangible and intangible things. How we view all this interwoven mess is according to our preferences and our choices.
Let us say, I live in an apartment and I'm a multi-millionaire. I have a dozen classic and exotic cars that I love. In this scenario, the cars are the prison. Or as I said the record collection that's too big to 'escape' with. Plus, the cars are taxed as property as well in many jurisdictions, so do I really own those either? Their value also varies somewhat based on where I try to sell them and how quickly.
Now my kids. They're grown. Lets say they don't agree with me about escaping. I'll not leave them behind. I don't think they are a prison. They are a chosen priority based on my preferences.
In conclusion, all our priorities and choices act to bind us to something, to some degree. A place, a law system, a community, culture, family etc... The idea that this binding is imprisonment is simply an attitude or state of mind.... a choice about how to think about it. It ceases being a prison the moment we stop viewing it as a binary of free as a bird or bound as a prisoner. The truth is somewhere in between and differs for each person.
The real estate is bound to a location, by physics. You are only bound to it by how much you value it and what goes along with it. Your value of it is always going to be different than the economic market value of it because part of the value you place on it is personal, or not I guess.
For me, there is no escaping my 'home', real estate or not. What I value there binds me to it more than any market value. If I can't be there with the irreplaceable family, friends, community, geography, climate, culture etc... because I must escape, my refuge becomes my prison as I am kept from what I value most in this world.
But, I agree. Choosing to be anywhere to some degree binds one to a place and all that comes with it. Even the nomad is, at a minimum, temporarily bound the moment they stop for the night somewhere.
Sorry, I get long winded.
Let us say, I live in an apartment and I'm a multi-millionaire. I have a dozen classic and exotic cars that I love. In this scenario, the cars are the prison. Or as I said the record collection that's too big to 'escape' with. Plus, the cars are taxed as property as well in many jurisdictions, so do I really own those either? Their value also varies somewhat based on where I try to sell them and how quickly.
Now my kids. They're grown. Lets say they don't agree with me about escaping. I'll not leave them behind. I don't think they are a prison. They are a chosen priority based on my preferences.
In conclusion, all our priorities and choices act to bind us to something, to some degree. A place, a law system, a community, culture, family etc... The idea that this binding is imprisonment is simply an attitude or state of mind.... a choice about how to think about it. It ceases being a prison the moment we stop viewing it as a binary of free as a bird or bound as a prisoner. The truth is somewhere in between and differs for each person.
The real estate is bound to a location, by physics. You are only bound to it by how much you value it and what goes along with it. Your value of it is always going to be different than the economic market value of it because part of the value you place on it is personal, or not I guess.
For me, there is no escaping my 'home', real estate or not. What I value there binds me to it more than any market value. If I can't be there with the irreplaceable family, friends, community, geography, climate, culture etc... because I must escape, my refuge becomes my prison as I am kept from what I value most in this world.
But, I agree. Choosing to be anywhere to some degree binds one to a place and all that comes with it. Even the nomad is, at a minimum, temporarily bound the moment they stop for the night somewhere.
Sorry, I get long winded.