> it seems so antithetical to capitalism to conjure up some laws to create scarcity. That is precisely what Enclosure(pretty much the birth of capitalism) was.

> it seems so antithetical to capitalism to conjure up some laws to create scarcity. That is precisely what Enclosure(pretty much the birth of capitalism) was. Land was made artificially scarce by concentrating it into the hands of the few, creating a landless working class that had to move to the cities and work in the factories to earn their living. At the time Britain also had something akin to an internal passport system, so that movement of labor between parishes was also restricted. For a bigger, well researched exposition of this, see Kevin Carson's essay "The Iron Fist behind the Invisible Hand". https://c4ss.org/content/24158 https://c4ss.org/content/24158