Certainly that has a lot to do with the perception of independence. Widespread ownership could, I suggest, a doorway to people better understanding the reality of interdependence.
Peace is more than the absence of warfare.
This time it's much more imbedded. If you want an incredibly dumb system, one with very little capacity for collective foresight, then concentrate your property relationships into the hands of a few and into the hands of detached money managers who rely on financial signals for their cues. I think that a few years from now we'll look back at this period in amazement that we were such fools. Good to hear from you Carmine.