Problem is, the table is greedy and tends to grow. We busy ourselves with measuring one another far too much as it is. A universal endowment of privacy, not merely "access to", would respect that not everything belongs on a universal table, to be meted out under rule.

Sailors working up the masts observed a sensible, practical ethic: "One hand for the ship, one hand for yourself." Such an idea could unfold as a sensible, practical antidote to the maximalist tendencies of both possessive individualism and unitarianism.