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SoftTalkeryesterday at 6:55 PM6 repliesview on HN

Land is bought and sold in government-regulated parcels. You can't just split up an acre of land into square foot plots and sell them.


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floatrockyesterday at 7:44 PM

Lets be armchair evil for a sec...

What is the smallest subplot you can split a parcel into?

And are we talking literally land, or would condo ownership suffice? (After all, you typically stack a few condos on top of one parcel of land). The smallest condo is probably dictated by some pesky human habitability rules, but what class of property has the fewest minimum-square-footage zoning rules? Retail probably has egress rules, but what about industrial spaces?

Could you create an industrial park to house a bunch of, to use a rough metaphor, independently-owned/independently-operated phone booths (or whatever other "qualifying use")?

Basically is there a category of land-use you could split ownership off at ridiculous scale, offer LLC-as-a-service to buy a bunch of them, and just for fun, tokenize the votes to provably aggregate the absentee ballots at scale via blockchain?

If it's one-entity-one-vote, what is the most cost-effective way to maximize the number of qualifying entities?

Bonus points for every order of magnitude of synthetic votes you can reasonably achieve over the fleshy variety.

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xd1936yesterday at 7:14 PM

Sure, corporations would _never_ get into the real estate market...

cogman10yesterday at 7:38 PM

Why not? Isn't it fundamentally the same idea as apartment complex tenets getting votes? Why couldn't a business sell off lockers to companies giving them voting access? Walk in Closets? Very small room apartments? What's the minimum size of real-estate needed?

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mindslightyesterday at 7:43 PM

Yes, you can. The county does not appear to be registered land (Torrens title) where the Registry would have some say in whether a transfer is valid. So you can straightforwardly hire a surveyor to draw up a plot plan with many square foot chunks, and then execute and record a different deed for each of them.

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underliptonyesterday at 7:39 PM

You can't just split up an acre of land into square foot plots and sell them, so far.