"The substitution of individual ownership for a communal one in which individuals retain a stake - a real community, or at a larger scale, a democracy - is not

"The substitution of individual ownership for a communal one in which individuals retain a stake - a real community, or at a larger scale, a democracy - is not inherently bad." It's not necessarily bad, but it is a major change to share something among thousands of people or millions of people vs. just among family and friends. Saying that the people sharing are a "community" makes it sound wonderful, but it's actually a large group of people that may have interests very different from yours. Decisions need to be made and it's hard to get consensus among a lot of people, so you are basically talking about a government of some kind, along with all the conflicts that creates. Private ownership is not particularly convenient, but it has a very interesting relationship with freedom that we should not cast away lightly.