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story worker

@FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @Daojoan well darnit. I'm just a complex human being - surely you've encountered that before? Just because you see it differently to me, it doesn't mean I'm wrong. You able to let that land in you somewhere?

22 August at 8:54 | Wall-to-wall | Open on radicalsocial.work
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Panda Cab replied to story

@storyworker

Okay then. You don't care about whatever happens to you and your living place. I cannot even fathom that, and I don't understand your "complexity" but okay.

Less complex people tend to not like not having control over the place they live in. They don't like to be faced with the options of paying more and more money each year or be homeless. They would actually like being able to be sure that their home is actually their home.

@HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @Daojoan

22 August at 9:02 | Open on kolektiva.social
HeavenlyPossum replied to Panda

@Daojoan @violetmadder @FrenchPanda @storyworker

Rentierism consists of a person who threatens to hurt you, or kill you, if you don’t work for them.

Sometimes it’s quite naked and explicit. Sometimes it’s obfuscated behind elaborate social rituals and fictions. By far the most common of these fictions is the ownership of some asset you need to survive. “Pay me or I will starve you to death.”

That’s it. That’s the distilled essence of rentier ownership. That’s what every rentier relationship consists of. You labor on their behalf, and in return they refrain from hurting you, or killing you. A protection racket. The only thing the rentier owner “provides” you is a promise not to hurt you, at least until the next month’s rent is due.

Most people don’t like that.

@Daojoan @violetmadder @FrenchPanda @storyworker

Rentierism consists of a person who threatens to hurt you, or kill you, if you don’t work for them.

Sometimes it’s quite naked and explicit. Sometimes it’s obfuscated behind elaborate social rituals and fictions. By far the most common of these fictions is the ownership of some asset you need to survive. “Pay me or I will starve you to death.”

22 August at 9:10 | Open on kolektiva.social
levampyre replied to HeavenlyPossum
HeavenlyPossum replied to levampyre

@Daojoan @levampyre @storyworker @violetmadder @FrenchPanda

Yes—the capitalist, the warlord, the landlord, the banker, the mafioso, the king, etc, are all variations on a central theme.

22 August at 9:32 | Open on kolektiva.social
RD replied to story

@storyworker

Your testimony in this thread pretty much convinces me that Buddhism is a scam designed to keep people in line and stop them from questioning the conditions they find themselves in.

@FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @Daojoan

22 August at 14:48 | Open on kolektiva.social
FoolishOwl replied to RD

@RD4Anarchy @storyworker @FrenchPanda @HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @Daojoan Sometimes I get reminders of why I'm an atheist in the first place. It's not about metaphysics, it's that most religions are apologies for oppression.

22 August at 17:54 | Open on social.coop
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