[lbo-talk] the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one

[Charles Brown]

"The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into
his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe
him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders,
what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had
someone pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to
his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you
forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no
one!"

- Jean Jacques-Rousseau