Redefining prosperity

Redefining prosperity requires a global movement of people willing to challenge the conventional belief that individuals and entities have some sort of right to claim ownership to portions of the planet. For most of us this involves ownership of land parcels in our cities and suburbs on which sit our homes or other buildings. We construct buildings, and they are legitimate forms of private property. We do not construct or create or produce the land; land is provided freely by nature to us all. Yet, we have carved up the planet into nation-states, with the people who happen to occupy that territory in recent centuries or decades claiming sovereignty and the right to keep others out. And, within the nation-state individuals and entities have managed to form systems of law the result of which is that the overwhelming majority of people are required to pay huge charges to a small minority for access to nature. Unless and until we deal with the problem of landed privilege, of land and natural resource monopoly, there will be no real prosperity shared by the people of the planet.