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It's still surprising to me how fast we lost ownership norms, and most seem satisfied with renting the right to be a sort of peasant.

• NetMageSCW 2mo ago
  Unless you own your own cell carrier and built towers across your country, you can’t own a phone.
  • orangecat 2mo ago
    Sure you can, the same way you can own a lamp without owning the power plant.
  • shiandow 2mo ago
    If you don't lay down your own roads you can't own a bike.
• einpoklum 2mo ago
  About that... you might be interested that private property ownership in general is the result of similar kinds of onerous and exploitative processes. Anthropologists and historians have done a bunch of research on this for a while, and one of the interesting narrative texts about this is Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (based on Lewis Herny Morgan's work) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-fami...