All true, and I'd simplify it to just - property rights. The more inviolable property rights are, the better for everyone.

Cities can be just as good as rural land, imo, if the city is run well. But they're a wild card - while growing, there's opportunity for everyone ; but let the socialists get into policy and it stops growing and is only good for oligarchs. So in Asian cities, which are growing and don't allow unions or protests, it works really well and you can save money and then go buy land somewhere. But western cities turn into festering shitholes because they let socialists run the show. So Asian society can trend towards freedom, and western society trends towards oppression. Social enantiodromia.

I do think protests should be legal and unmolested. But I also think they're fighting over scraps. With better property rights, there would be no need. They're fighting the wrong fight...

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