The great downside of privatization of public lands is that it makes it illegal for one not to participate…not to hold land and pay taxes.

Homeless people are always on the move. Why? Because they can’t sleep in doorways…or loiter…or stand here or there. If they’re moving they’re trespassing. If they’re still, they’re loitering. If they lay down, they’re breaking other laws. In a society without public space, it is illegal to exist, unless you participate in the market. It should never be a crime to exist and not to buy land.

Go to Utah—it’s full of people out on the lands who just wish to live. To live like humans are intended…without the constraints of government or property taxes. But on the east coast or the west coast? The homeless are criminalized. And they’re criminalized because the nature of our economy says that those who do not pay have no value. It’s not that they don’t work that leads to their criminalization…it’s that they do not spend