Acquiring private property allows the commons to deteriorate.

Americans love private property. Nobody goes to the beach when they have a swimming pool in their own backyard.

I learned a lot from Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty is one of those dynamics of culture that affects everyone in the culture. Most people are unaware of its function in the society in which they live. The thought system operating at the stage of modernity upholds the belief in free markets, private property, zero sum capitalism, and reductive cause and effect. This belief system has improved the welfare of humanity but also has contributed to a social Darwinism which supports the survival of the fittest economically. This view has contributed to a cruelty and even sadism that is very destructive for the society and which risks the end of the very society which has supported it.

Some of us have learned the toxic effects of free market capitalism based on it zero sum belief system and have called upon the members of the society to awaken from their belief in it so that the society that benefits from it can become aware of its limitations and move on to the next stage of human evolution which is the understanding that to survive human sapiens must appreciate and nurture the commons.

I live in Hilton, NY where, while Lake Ontario is only 6 miles away, few people go to the beach any more because they are in the backyard with just a few selected others swimming in their pool and barbecuing as the climate deteriorates around them,