Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
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A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden \'worthless\' land now has an airport on it.
You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
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