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by nativeit 13 days ago
Tangentially related: https://youtu.be/F4SmgrAmdUQ

“When nothing belongs to everyone, the rich will own everything, including the rebellions against them,”

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Unincorporated areas of London that were previously shared informally were commodified and transferred to the rich roughly around the 19th century, depriving commoners of them and gradually pushed them out.
Happened all over England and started much earlier than that.
Beautiful work, that video.
Tragedy of the commons, re-framed