It's utterly immoral to allow people to own land. Land is a unique asset that belongs to society and letting anyone think otherwise was a massive mistake. The government allows people to enter into perpetual leases, but that's it. Private ownership is useful as an incentive to create things. Land isn't created so it can't be owned.
The solution is actually straight forward. Recognise that property rights didn't just start with the Europeans coming to the americas, so all current land ownership is illegal. Now this obviously would open a whole different can of worms, but I always find it amazing that people argue you can't do things because of property rights while all land ownership in the US is essentially based on illegally taking the rights of previous occupiers.
A lot of people want land ownership to mean that they have absolute dictatorial power over everyone and everything on their land. We, as a society, have decided that this is silly, and that most crimes outside your land remain crimes inside your land. I can't really disagree.
You seem to be confusing the fee simple notion of land ownership that we have in the United States with allodial title which doesn't happen anywhere because it's a terrible way to run a society
The problem in this case is not land ownership but exclusive political and / or economic system which rigs the game against a certain percentage of a population on all fronts.
That would require abandoning the idea that land owners have special rights over people who don't have land. We used to tie voting rights to land ownership. We will have to abandon a lot more special rights to reach any form of equity.
Why must every inch of this land have to be incorporated somehow? I'd much rather have no man's land, than have a land owned by a particular man's ideology (regardless of how much I may be inclined to agree with it).
Land "ownership" has no basis in natural law since it's a formalization of violence (all private land was either taken from someone else, or declared to be owned by threatening newcomers with violence). You can't own land the way you can own the fruit of your labor, so all land ownership is contingent on the consent of the community.
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