Slavs had walls surrounding settlement excluding side connected to river..
it depends what trading system your culture prefers.. how open or closed is.
Goths in Spain completely banned commerce outside of one designated spot. I'm not sure if they came up with this because of local... circumstances or brought it with them. Anyway it didn't help them much, quite opposite...
To be fair Pharaohs at least felt deep responsibility for own subjects well-being, active defence of state borders and common interest of own folk living there.
But not to the self defeating level of Sargon of Akkad and the first socialist welfare state's collapse known to history.
My air being free of electronetic toxins when I sleep between 22:00 and 6:00 is my basic human right.
Intense sounds, WiFi, unnatural lights, phone signals, even freaking radio waves (I forgive moon, it must have some natural function we are adapted too).
it's not natural so it's not humane.
My personal space is sacred and my neighbour has no right invading it in any shape or form.
I don't care if he lives 100m from me or 30cm away behind wall in the same building. it's all the same.
Also the ground under and air above from center of earth all the way up to end of atmosphere is my space, everything founded in that soil as well. If it's mine it's mine.
If I decide with milion other people to concentrate in one big spot our sky will be free from artificial crap obscuring free natural sky view. Your globalist collectivist agenda is completely irrelevant to me.
And if you cross our sky we have full right to get your crap out of our sight in self defense by any means we decide to use.
Clear borders and agreed rights keep everyone more happy and more free.
If people want to kill themselves slowly, poison themselves, test any new fake things on themselves let them.
But keep them away from those who want to live the whole naturally designed length of time that we were given being born on this planet from nature.
And if you shorten my life I get right to shorten yours, what's only fair but creates a never ending cycle on enmity and incompatibility.
Also city is not natural human growth environment.. but that's another topic.
the very idea of fixing anything with taxes is wrong
primary role of land is to not have any civilized role, just supporting nature and thanks to nature humans (as they are naturally part of it),
land under cities and any density populated areas is area of human civilization, but usually not humane civilization,
people tend to fix human artificially created problems with artificially created solutions usually creating new problems later
land shouldn't be hoarded
if every national has his own piece of it guaranteed (only inheritable) then there is no legitimisation for hoarding more
but the piece should be big enough to let person feed himself from it
then the rest can be city land for lending by nation to companies
and all the rest is the shared coowned land like forests for mushroom collecting, limited hunting or fishing
If no corporation or foreigner can hoard your land you fixed most of the problem already
we decide our health and lifespan with everyday choices at shop and choosing place of living, working and it's water, air and soil quality
ofc some of us get born with a better starting point but that's what maintaining common standards is for
saving in inflative currency is irrational itself
retirement system is a lottery game to keep people focused on working and paying taxes only, schooling to make obedient workers and alimentary system is a divorce maker to break society into individual atoms
it's to block any need to group spontaneously, plan own future yourself, organise organically and oppose actual system
people use their things best for themselves never for societal benefit especially that there is no one universal definition of societal benefit
if every person has own idea about it it means you would give big share to some individual(s) who would build their idea of societal benefit that could contradict majority's sense of their benefit and common benefit
btw if you make it uncommon it by definition becomes non common
but I still like your sense of need of meritocracy and helping those more capable - still most important part lacking here is keeping them bound with bottom of pyramid they come from and serve, sharing fruits if their skills so the bottom would proliferate yielding new exceptional units lifting everything up continuously.
This is example of blindly overengineering problems easily solved by actually looking for origins of problems first.
Exactly these magical artificial solutions are the problem. Our money is burnt to chase high tech dream stocks instead of basic things that should be obvious to everyone but isn't. Heard about Sinclair?
Like fixing cancer by not prevention of metabolic diseases causing it keeping high quality standards of food in shops, limiting pesticides, GMO, processing of it to minimum feeding animals with what they supposed to eat and planting on soil naturally fertilised and fully mineralised but instead doing direct modifications of genes, these which work perfectly well naturally if given back normal human conditions..
And then looking for solutions to problems caused by (God forbid irreversible) own blind solutions...
as what we observe continuosly in last years after creating global condition unseen in nature... with maybe irreversible impact looking forward
I know story first hand about a boy with a strong astma on breathing machine daily from dusty capital.
When mom moved him to my clean region with fresh air he stopped needing it after two weeks.
But even living here can cause health issues because of winter. More exactly burning coal, not being able to wind room before sleep with clean air, sticking in heated house in dry air and washing in hard (?) water with too much calcium and other minerals.
I had allergy to pollen every year counted with a watch. The same week, hospital, nearly choked up to death. I was 7-8yo.
It disappeared itself. but I think I changed my diet as a teenager.
Later discovered histamine sensitivity, the hard way.
Everything eventually comes to our diet not being what it was before inventing farming in natural conditions, our actual diet messing up our natural biom, including already erased majority of bacteria we originally had as mammals and mistakes of our parents impacting our wiring before getting born, especially in pregnancy period (including being born the wrong hole).
Later it's just our body adapting to what it has and coping as it can. The older the more bad accumulates.
Adding new experimental ideas on top of that..
Humanity is not smart, but it surely is persistent at blindly trying things.
It's just one person finds it earlier other later and sometimes have a different kind of luck.
