You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show.

I guess today, the book today we're discussing is called Mine, How the Hidden Rules of Ownership

Control Our Lives.

I know I say this about a lot of the books that, you know, I really love the book and so I really

love this book.

And not just because it's well written

and it's fun to listen to or read but because it's really important that is

ownership property land intellectual property music art words property,

music, art, words, you know,

airspace above your house, the dirt below your house,

how far down does it go?

The space between two seats on an airliner.

Who owns that air, that space?

You know, the person in front, because they have the button

they can push and recline the seat,

or the person in the back whose knees get munched from the reclining seat. Who owns that?

Who has the right to that? Well, we get into all that plus talking about

those kinds of property rights and land ownership like Native Americans

owned North America, didn't they? Well of course the United States government

said no we took it so it's ours.

Oh, really, how does that work? Well, working the land is different than just living on the

land. Oh, really? Where does it say that? Anyway, so we discuss all the kind of

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