• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    • Buying food in order to destroy it is bad.

    • Buying art in order to destroy it, also bad.

    Ownership itself is a pragmatic social construct: you “own” things insofar as that “makes sense.”

    Does it make sense for Amazon to own rare books? Not really. I’m not sure why that would be allowed. It’s like a child owning a rocket. It simply makes no sense in most contexts.