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Daryn Cavalier
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**Credential enclosure:** Gatekeeping participation in services and economy via licenses, degrees, “professionalization,” background checks, and algorithmic hiring filters stabilize disconnection from contribution in times of abundance for the system.
…1. **Asset enclosure:** Ownership rules that keep essentials scarce by design include land consolidation, housing as an asset class, water rights, patents, and paywalled infrastructure, utilities and services. This ensures disconnection from place regardless of wealth in the system. 2. **Credential enclosure:** Gatekeeping participation in services and economy via licenses, degrees, “professionalization,” background checks, and algorithmic hiring filters stabilize disconnection from contribution in times of abundance for the system. 3. **Risk privatization:** Economic shocks are individualized instead of shared by the society. Healthcare tied to employment, predatory insurance, fines and fees, upside down credit and interest scales, cash bail, and pay-to-play utilities all ensure disconnection from protection regardless of the economy. 4. **Narrative enclosure:** A story that converts structural exclusion into personal defect. Poverty is a sign of personal characteristics: “lazy,” “undeserving,” “criminal,” “uneducated,” “bad choices,” “addict.” Shame replaces repair and policing replaces care.…