Propertarianism
In The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin, the Odonians express disapproval for people not adhering to their ways by calling them profiteers and propertarians.
Profiteer is easy. We talk about profiteers.
Propertarian though. Not as a political philosophy. A mindset. Once you put a name on it it's easy to see.
People get like that not just about their stuff but communal stuff or common stuff. They get like that about ideas for pity's sake. This is their thing. Even if it's not.
It becomes an overriding fear. "What if someone takes it?" Stopping people from doing new things.
When I first read The Dispossessed as a teenager I was too young to notice this. I just hadn't experienced enough. When I read The Dispossessed in my twenties I was busier considering all the other ideas. But since the last time I read The Dispossessed this is an idea that really stuck with me.
Are humans inherently propertarian? Is it a base instinct we can liberate ourselves of? I'd like to think so. But it runs so deep. Deep in our British feudal souls certainly.
Putting a name to it has been massively helpful to me especially as I've been doing more community stuff. Without the name it's an intractable stubbornness in other people, a scared jealous hoarding instinct.
With a name I find it easier to understand. We live in a wildly propertarian society. Of course people are like this. I can unpick it, rather than get frustrated. (I do still get frustrated. But I try.)
It makes it easy to label within myself. The scared jealous hoarding feeling. I'm being propertarian. Calm down, loosen up, let go. Be better.