Social theorist David Harvey builds on Arendt's insight with his notion of "accumulation by dispossession": "What accumulation by dispossession does is to release a set of assets… at very low (and in some instances zero) cost. Overaccumulated capital can seize hold of such assets and immediately turn them to profitable use." He adds that entrepreneurs who are determined to "join the system" and enjoy "the benefits of capital accumulation" are often the ones who drive this process of dispossession into new, undefended territories.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 314