Privacy can be purchased as a commodity in public settings.

Evidence

B. Schwartz (1968:743) suggests that privacy is an object of exchange which may be purchased in public settings such as transportation facilities and theaters. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1079

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s purpose: privacy-as-commodity in transit parallels the blasé attitude as a priced cognitive shield mentally purchased against strangers. — connects to: The new enclosures privatize access to identity, as the old ones privatized land
• QUESTION: Worth chasing the Schwartz 1968 source for how pricing privacy operates in transit and theater seating.