Private Water Saves Lives: a false dilemma by the Cato Institute

[gigglingwizard]

In this article, Fredrik Segerfeldt, author of Water for Sale: How Businesses and the Market Can Resolve the World’s Water Crisis, argues that people in underdeveloped places will be better off if water is privatized. He arrives at this by considering businesses claiming water as their property and selling to people as the only alternative to

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[elusiveat]

What is this "owning" of land you speak of?

[elusiveat]

Can't stay away from this, because the whole premise makes me so angry. Sure, we should own the products of our labor, but at most all that means is that if you put in the effort of purifying water, you own the purity of that water. You didn't make the water itself. You can't own it

[elusiveat]

Can't stay away from this, because the whole premise makes me so angry. Sure, we should own the products of our labor, but at most all that means is that if you put in the effort of purifying water, you own the purity of that water. You didn't make the water itself. You can't own it

[gigglingwizard]

In a culture in which a concept of personal property exists, I think ownership of land becomes a necessity

[elusiveat]

You can divide up the air, water, and land, and say that each of us own that portion that we need to stay alive

[elusiveat]

P.S. Please feel free to delete the anonymous versions of my comments here, as well as this one.