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Lately, though, the winners have been the propertied and the privileged, who have figured out how to rig the game in their favor, by using regulations and land-use rules to resegregate our society.

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He’s surplus labor in a post-scarcity society, and the only thing for a Ken to do is get in the way of the propertied ruling class.

In an age of small government — and an age in which lawmakers and officials answered only to propertied White men — keeping an open book proved straightforward.

Others liken the lawsuit to generational theft by the older, whiter baby boomers who dominate the propertied classes in college communities throughout California.

It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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