If you could change one policy to value the commons, what would it be and why?
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Change one rule: stop letting the word “ownership” mean only the right to exclude. Recognise, in law, a second kind of ownership — the right to steward and to share — and give it the same standing in court that exclusion enjoys today.
Almost everything else follows. Who benefits from keeping the current rule in place? Whoever already holds the fences. The point of changing it is not to abolish property but to end its monopoly on the meaning of the word — so that care, agency, and the collective good have a legal footing, not just a moral one.
A commons is not the absence of rules. It is the presence of better ones.
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Governing the Commons
The field guide to everything we were told was impossible.
The Dawn of Everything
On the freedoms we forgot we had.
Doughnut Economics
Draw the boundary, then share what's inside it.
