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Given that the "rural common people" were just as happy killing each other for access to land, good luck finding the "real" owner.

Seriously, there are lots of things wrong with the allocation of wealth and property around the world, but "it was stolen during the agricultural revolution" is an absolutely meaningless argument. Britain e.g. has 900k years of human history. (With the first humans only visiting between cold spells).

There is no "true first owner".




> There is no "true first owner".

I did not claim there was a "true first owner".

I said that there was ownership by the common people.


Which common people? Unless you'd like to treat "the common people" as an amorphous blob?


The commons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

A successful system of land stewardship for many centuries. It was maintained and looked after by the people that lived near to it.




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