Tag
Commons
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Not Only Land
Land is the clear case, not the only one. The same line reaches the ore, the aquifer, and the airwaves: charge the gift nobody made, leave the shaft and the transmitter untouched. Most real assets are a blend. Pretending otherwise is how …
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Not Welfare, a Dividend
Almost every argument about a basic income is lost in the first word. Welfare is charity, a transfer from the people who earned the money to the people who did not. A dividend is the return on something you already own. The money can be the …
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Nobody Paid Rent on the Airwaves
Broadcasters hold a scarce public commons, the electromagnetic spectrum, almost free, in exchange for a public interest promise nobody enforces. That unpriced grant is the real defect, and it explains both the networks’ capture of a …
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The Last Enclosure
A large language model is the knowledge of the species, enclosed by a corporation and rented back to the people who made it. The value it sells is mostly unearned, captured from a commons it did not create. Open models are the better path …