Posts by clarity@xoxo.zone
 (DIR) Post #B4ED8JrB2Gqb7fWzXU by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       Your regular reminder that "the rich" aren't people who earn large paychecks. They are people with capital that generates returns: investments, property, company shares. "High income earners" are not an intrinsic enemy of "the working class" – many of them are a member of it!
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ED8KYQRTRTHnlWwy by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       a surgeon earning $400k with few investments living paycheck-to-paycheck (very possible if they have a sick parent with high healthcare costs or high childcare prices) has more in common with a food service worker than with Jeff Bezos, but the system is designed to make both workers forget that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ED8KszD1tAJZNwzw by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       And noteworthily: a NYT opinions journalist who earns a $120k salary and another $200k on their investments and tenant rent absolutely _is_ part of the capitalist class and rich, even though their income is lower than the hypothetical surgeon's!
       
 (DIR) Post #B4EHxyOAUtxZPrqfEe by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       @lanodan "rent-seekers" is a somewhat less poisoned word in the discourse
       
 (DIR) Post #B4MiyhSv9h85FJK1XE by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       @lynnesbian voted for "something else" because I always try to reword or pick a different emoticon when this comes up
       
 (DIR) Post #B5OYOC2bwt0Lw2P96G by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       @neauoire can you explain what exactly the "'[y^x x^y]/[x^x n]" rule means?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5OYOCGR7U40cusBeK by clarity@xoxo.zone
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       @neauoire ohhh wait I get it now. that's very neat
       
 (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.