I would argue that this is a parallel question to that of property - i.e. the one right that carries a price tag & therefore the one rich people care about - as the defining characteristic of the societies we live in.
As Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) said, "once you relegate the relatively unimportant matter of property rights to its correct station, you can see – and reason about – the universe of rights that are far more important than mere property"...
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/scrape-scrope-scrap/#
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
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