alt Hacker NewsIt'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.
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einpoklum • yesterday at 9:49 PM
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-fami...
Unless you own your own cell carrier and built towers across your country, you can’t own a phone.