Goblin's view on property

[career advisor]

No: HPFGUIDX 176529

Actually I rather like the Goblin's idea of property. Property belongs to the maker or the makers decedents. A 'lifetime lease' can be given to someone else but the property still belongs to the builder or builders descendant. 
   
  If I were a goblin, if my great-grandfather had built a house by hand and another family lived in it for a hundred years, at the end of that time the house could be given to me by will. And I could lease it for life to a trusty homeless friend for another hundred years or give it to my son to live in.   
   
  Humans can do this too, but the difference is that in Goblin society there is no selling of 'tangible items'. You can not buy anything from a Goblin only lease it. 
   
   
  This is a society which is run by the builders, the craft maker etc. Despite all the glitter of Gringots, the Goblin society is a society of the proletariat. The workers rule. 
   
  The carpenters and the masons and the metal-smiths own everything. Since all property at one time must be built or created.   
   
  There are probably 'loans' in Goblins society but no mortgages. Since I don't think a bank can be said to have built a 'house.'  A builder might need capital to buy supplies, but that capital does not seem to grant ownership to the bank. Unlike muggle banks Gringots must own owns very little except interest on loans. 
   
  I wonder:
   
  1. If the Goblins idea of property is one reason why JKR made it so that the  wizards won't let them have wands. A Goblin Ollivander after all would think he owned all the wands he sold. And a Goblin spell-caster everything he cast into existence.
   
  2. If the Goblins helped build Hogwarts. If Hogwarts is a 'goblin-maid school' then do they think they own Hogwarts.
   
  3. Is there a human society with ownership rules anything like this. There must be. Any sociologists out there?
   
  DA Jones
        

       
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