Found an interesting concept in property rights theory:

'Ad coelum doctrine:

Asserts that a landowner's rights extend not only to the surface of their land but also indefinitely upwards into the airspace above and downwards into the earth below, potentially to the center of the earth.'

If ownership is derived from homesteading/first-use, i.e. transformation of an unowned resource by mixing it with one's labour and making it an extension of their self, I don't think this can be valid.

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Last paragraph seems true, which means you can drink someone’s milkshake.

Wait until you learn about Riparian Rights and you have to get a lobotomy to stop the seizures and hallucinations.

These debates ought to be in the forefront of political discourse, but alas, we're stuck with debating how much free helicopter money each person gets

https://mises.org/mises-daily/who-owns-water

Great reference thank you.

How 😂

Idk if you know the reference from There Will Be Blood. IIRC the kid squatted on land that had oil under it, but Plainview the oil tycoon “drank it up” from his plot of land.

Okay wow I was not familiar with Daniel Day-Lewis' acting

This and Gangs of New York he’s amazing