Cute, but it's not that simple.  The collectivist attitudes of the middle 20th century against colonialism only created a different kind of colonialism, where the government owns and controls all of the subsurface and virtually all of the surface and doles out well-paying jobs to the few and a thousand or two per year to most of the rest of the populace.  Then there's the "now that I got mine, I need to keep you from getting yours" mentality that the older generations constantly hold over the younger ones.