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 (DIR) Post #B6je3cZzHznrMx0wpE by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       ppl like to say that we're heading towards "feudalism", but I think there's a key difference. The "lord" of my "land" no longer needs to live anywhere near that land, nor even be a person at all. The violence is delegated to the state. Everything is wrapped in protective buffers of abstraction.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6je3dRA6IL01rtPhw by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       A feudal lord, for all their power, implicitly understands the pressure of the mob: there's a long history of peasant revolts across the world. And they exploit & abuse their own land at their peril, because they can't just sell it off and buy a new estate. The capitalist has no such limitations.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6je3dnUlGCb98LFWC by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       The invention of the "corporation" and "private ownership" (and, much later, the "supply chain") was a necessary step in bringing us to where we are. We aren't moving backwards, but forwards, into something we don't have precedents to understand. Uber doesn't have to own any cars to run a taxi business, yknow. Shits weird.