Is that why it’s tearing itself apart? /s
Anyone wanna rent my pants? It only has one yellow stain.
Neofeudalism is the goal of capitalism, always has been.
I feel like the purported capitalism that’s run rampant for centuries is just an extension and rebranding of the OG feudalism. Always thought that.
You are not alone in believing this.
There are significant differences, but yes, in a way. Class conflict has always been at the core of modern human history, and when the bourgeoisie and Proletariat teamed up against the Aristocracy, Capital was transfered from the hands of the microscopically few to the hands of much more. However, this is an incomplete transfer of power, and as Capital consolidates, it trends back to a form of Feudalism.
Yeah, well put. I’m just identifying the underlying class conflict of resource scarcity and power hunger, through all of human history under the guise of any and every governmental system
Very concisely written dude… really nails the way the shifting about happened
Very true, been touting this for years. The rich tricked the peasantry into helping them take over the aristocracy. Now we have less legal protections than a medieval serf.
Basically. The original bourgeois fighting against the feudal lords basically changed just enough so that they themselves could become lords, or lord like, with no so much care for anyone below thier own class.
I used the term “thinly veiled feudalism” in a college paper or three.
I had a history teacher in the late 90s that lapped up every paper I wrote bc within the boundaries of the assignment, I’d be writing about Che instead of Teddy Roosevelt.
You will own nothing and be happy.
imo its more like: You will own nothing and be miserable
What a load of crap. “if these data points I cherry picked hold to this trend in a straight line forever” blah, blah, blah. By the way, buy my book
So capitalism is turning into communism except it’s the plutocrats that end up owning everything instead of the government? Neat.
The difference between the two largely becomes academic after a certain point. Impoverished masses toiling in exchange for minimal benefits so that an oligarchy can strip the nation’s economy dry.
It’s almost like we can’t blindly trust people in power or something.
I have zero ability to vote out oligarchs, so definitely not the same past that point.
they United States Federal government holds the note on my house. I’m paying 1% interest. for 33 years.
it’s a pretty sweet deal.
And how would one accomplish that?
Service guarantees citizenship.
Would you like to hear more?
Wish I would have. At 52, I’d have been retired for 20 years, pulling retirement since then, and fat on benefits. PLUS, working as a government consultant of some sort if I was skilled and chose to do so.
And somehow, people think if you join, you have to pick up an M4 and go fight in a desert. Yeah, those jobs are for people who want them, or are too stupid to do anything else.
You’re still part of the machine, and fuck that. Fuck that military industrial complex.
I know a guy who took that deal in mid 2000.
I’m doing my part!
USDA direct loan. the rates went up this year but they still give a deferment for financial hardship. I think it’s called a 502 or 503 direct loan.
I got a Habitat for Humanity house and mortgage. 0% interest, 0 property taxes. Cost of the home was the cost of purchasing the land and building it.
Keep playing sucker games kids, keep getting suckered, keep bitching.
Or maybe try something?
Don’t give this moron the attention he craves.
Because our money is worthless and all the wealth is in the hands of people we’ll never even see bc they live in the modern equivalent of castles? But hey at least we can finance cheap useless mass produced shit from overseas and feel so bougie
FTA:
“you might even rent your clothes in the future.”
The future?
https://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/best-clothing-subscription-boxes
I want out of this timeline now, K? Thanks
I don’t think any of those make you return the clothes after a set period of time, do they? Because clothes are not especially desirable used for the same price as new.
They do have options to buy though.
I wonder how they get away with that? Who wants a used dress that isn’t even the latest fashion of the month? Do they just sell them off?
I mean… we are kitty corner from straight up feudalism.
Edit: Protip: Feudalism is Anarchy where the top dogs are really abusive about asserting their dominance.
You will have no privacy, own nothing, and be a prisoner.
Is this real, or satire?
A real version would use knitting needles instead of bones.
Yes.
It’s a rip from cassette days when there were dire warnings of “Home taping is killing music. And it’s illegal”. There were some concerns about home sewing doing the same thing but even the doom sayers knew it was kind of lame to make too big a stink about. Now it’s more a call to arms to diy.
An early precursor of the “you wouldn’t download a car” PSAs. Funny how the arguments never change.
The status quo always has money.
I will kill myself if life ends up this bad.
If you’re already prepared to die, take out a massive summit of the fuckers that have made things so bad while you do it! Put the fear of the people back in them.
Make sure actual innocent people don’t get hurt
No thanks.
You will own nothing and be happy.
I own a nice house and am pissed as fuck about that bullshit. My hypothetical kids, and more importantly the real kids that exist shouldn’t have had the ladder pulled up so they can’t even survive in this bullshit.
You own it, like the mortgage is paid or you rent from the bank still?
Own outright. Paid in full. I just pay taxes and insurance.
It won’t for you, it will for your kids and kids kids
I’m going to sit down with Mom and get a refresher course on sewing. I can make simple stuff.
I have made clothing patterns in Autocad and printed them out on a plotter before. Going to pirate some pants.
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Don’t be such a pants pirate.
You nicknamed your dicklet “needle”?? Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Some of us have humiliation kinks. Don’t shame.
You wouldn’t download pants…
Sorry, that was a poor attempt at a joke.
Says literally only you. Relevant username, I see.
Meant to reply to the mom joke. So, yes, relevant username.
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Nah, they just don’t make sense for people with the way amortization works. It’s not like doubling the length of the mortgage halves the payment. At 7% interest, for example as it’s sort of close to the current average, changing a 30 year mortgage to a 100 year mortgage is about a 12.24% reduction in the monthly payment.
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