BoardGameFanatic

We exist, I am living in a flat with two more. We are actually looking for a fourth flatmate so if there are any people in Wellington looking for a place you should hit me up.

Do you have any solid facts as to the farming subsidies in France?

France has recently passed a bill that will force supermarkets to donate their food waste to charities, supposedly to cut down on food waste in general. I believe that this is just going to distort the market even more than it already is in France, there is probably a good reason why the supermarkets don't just sell the food waste to farms or donate it to charities. What effect do people think it will have on the economy in France? I was just looking into food waste by supermarkets and apparently in the UK the supermarkets have iniated their own programmes to cut down on food waste by donating it to charities, improving inventory methods and using it as alternative fuel sources. If they are doing it voluntarily my question is now why aren't the French companies doing it, are there regulations in France that make this unviable?

As I have been trawling through the original podcasts I came across podcast 212 outlining Stefan's views on business management. Obviously not many people showed interest in it because it there is not a second one but I really enjoyed it and was wondering if there was any more content around this topic?

I'm not sure where the privilege of exclusivity comes from though, I am happy to accept them if it could be explained why. What TheRobin said didn't explain where the exclusive rights originate. Well originally this came from a joke from one of my flatmates who was trying to find some way for me to find a loophole in torrenting (i.e. stealing) digital comics, I'm not comfortable doing that no matter how control is defined because either way stealing is immoral. This lead to the question if you steal something do you own it? Which then lead to the question of defining ownership.

If ownership of property comes from someones action in claiming that property, then if someone makes a claim to someone elses property they now own it. Sure this could continue ad infitium but that doesn't mean that ownership of property doesn't exist it is just constantly changing.

If I pick an apple off a tree that is not owned by anyone I own that apple by virtue of owning the consequences of my actions. If someone steals that apple from me do they not own it by the virtue of owning the consequences of their actions? Obviously this is immoral but I'm not sure if morality has anything to do with ownership.

We own our bodies, we own our actions and the consequences of them, so do we own something that we steal? After a lengthy discussion with my flatmates and still no conclusion I am putting this forward to the FDR community to hopefully come to a definitive answer.