Comment by vasco
5 hours ago
> We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work
The whole world is dictated by dead hands. I cannot walk around pristine forests (maybe I even need to pre-register), I need to deal with bureaucracy, I need to pay taxes, almost every single landscape is ruined by human buildings, etc. So what is that even about?
I guess you live in a city. Or a highly populated country.
There's lots of unused land in this world. Most of Canada is. I live in a rural area, and loads of forest land, yet I'm 20 minutes to a city with 1M in population.
A few hours more outward, and it's just all empty federal land.
Where do you live? Surely not the US, Canada or Mexico. These places have lots of untamed, not locked down land.
Unless, of course, you're in a city.
Those things are controlled by government, which you may change. You aren't confined to a single job/city because your dead father holds you their by contract, the penalty being you repaying for all the food you ate as a kid.
When I helped at a legal clinic, lots of old people wanted their kids to stay local. They wanted wills drafted to disinherit the kids if they ever moved away. I spent hours explaining how idiotic that was.