Do you steal what you've worked for? 

The government owns huge pieces of land, almost all the geothermal (try to buy a property with an active hot spring), the government is the people in an ideal situation,  so the people use the bounty of the land to build mining infrastructure...they fund it through community input, everyone that works is paid a living wage...

I don't know, seems it should be within reason for people to organize around self sovereignty for their community...maybe not.