I can’t quite put it into words, but I see this as a sort of echo of the old Enclosure movement in England. People lived in villages, and shared common land for the benefit of their local community. Then things changed and the land was increasingly bought up by great landowners. Soon after, industrialization starts up, life in rural communities isn’t good at all, people have no choice but to move to cities and work in dangerous factories.
People can see that as “progress” from living in a 16th century village to a modern industrialized nation, but what I see happening right now seems vaguely similar and not at all good.
The enclosure thing didn’t work so well- wasn’t it the poster child for tragedy of the commons, when land held in common was abused and became barren and unproductive from overgrazing because people wouldn’t put in effort to maintain it much less improve it because they didn’t individually own it?