My new boss invited me to go to lunch. Lunch turned out to be an awards luncheon for the downtown partnership where our group had a table. Comrades I have never seen so many faces of capital in my life. 1,000 suits and pantsuits that see the entire landscape around them as a vast frontier that they can exploit. 1,000 suits and pantsuits chowing down on salmon and applauding each other for finding the most creative and profitable ways for real estate capital to devour every untouched pocket of urban land in my city and be securitized and revitalized and gentrified to oblivion.
I don't know how we are going to resist this absolute monolith going forward but my feeling after today is pretty bleak.
There is something horrifying about being so close to these high priests of the mindless god of capital, knowing what we know. Each and every one of them unified in their purpose of accumulation but simultaneously waiting for a chance to sacrifice each other on the same altar at which they all worship.
The complete lack of humanity and empathy required to enjoy events like that is deeply unsettling.
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How are you feeling? Kind of under the weather, like you've got the flu? That would be the ricin I gave you.
Oh did you not order the horchata? Here I'll take that, just wait here, I'll definitely be back
like they couldn’t even mate with the proles if they tried.
Unless it was non consensual :didnt-kill-himself:
Their wealth comes from talking bullshit and otherwise doing nothing, so no wonder they feel so good about simply existing and wanking each other off.
Janitors should get his paycheck, and he should get sealed in a barrel and left in the sun.
What, are you some kind of conspiracy theorist? You think these big evil capitalists just get together in some kind of actual room and talk about how to run the system?
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Try to keep in mind that that level of concentrated ghoulishness is rare. It's an unhealthy thing to be exposed to and they're still a tiny minority when compared to society writ large. The human brain isn't good at processing larger numbers/groups well and it's easy to overestimate them in person, and harder yet to imagine them in the greater context when that context is impossible to physically see for comparison.
The best bet is this will probably worsen in the near future as the global profit crisis increases. The US, as the reigning capitalist hegemon, will be seen as the safest investment so foreign capital will flock here. Look at the Chinese investment in Canadian real estate, look at Saudi investment in American real estate. We’re the roaches living in their gated community and they’ll be happy to have the place fumigated so they can
move inrent it out to…idk the slightly poorer capitalists?I'm looking for a new place right now, and there are places charging the equivalent of my entire paycheque which look like they're about two years away from reno-victing all the tenants.
Every time Jagmeet Singh shows up on my FaceBook feed, I want to tell him "promise to nationalize housing, and you will become prime minister." I know he won't, and I know I need to stop using FaceBook, but the problem is so out of control and the solution so obvious, that it blows my mind that almost no one can even conceive it.
The feudal lords of old had a similar outlook towards their fellow man, and they were even smaller in number compared to Capital. They thought themselves invincible and that they and their heirs would rule over the rabble indefinitely.
Of course, we know how that ended up :gui-better:
Contrary to what some think, history is still very much in the making. Conversely, this does not give us an excuse to be complacent.
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No group of capitalists have ever fucked around when it comes to extracting maximum value, but real estate capital seems more rabid than most especially in recent times. I guess this is one continued symptom of the falling rate of profit on actual production and the corresponding rise of finance capital. Making and selling products and services to us that we can have full personal ownership of is simply no longer profitable enough; instead, absolutely everything must be financialized, rented and leased rather than owned outright, for the sake of drawing continuous profit. The obvious big initial target of this transformation is housing (as parasitic rent seeking has of course always been a core tenant of capitalist accumulation) but it's clearly expanding into other areas of life too. Oddly enough this can be thought of in a way as a process of "de-commodification" (in the sense that commodities can no longer be directly purchased, but must be acquired indirectly via various convoluted financial instruments) while also at the same time as expanded commodification (in that the process is seeking innovative ways to capitalize on and commidify our lives directly, to make human beings and their lives the product itself).
Strap in folks, the end of history is only going to get more wild from here on out. I believe a wise man once said "History 1 is dying and History 2 struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters"
Unrelated but I first read that quote years ago and for the longest time I didn't know Gramsci said it. I thought it was from Dark Souls or something 💀
You should see some of the banking conferences I run AV for. The worst is the leadership panels, where three bank CEOs and a sponsor spend an hour talking about how much good their bank does for the community. I kind of enjoy when they bring a regulator up because everyone in the crowd is clearly so annoyed, though.
Comrade, I could not possibly eat an entire wheel of cheese myself in one sitting, but with the help of my friends we will turn it into 💩.
You let them all walk out of there.
Next time, they may not be so lucky.
In minecraft.
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Hey steplandlord, look what I'm wearing!
puts on PLA hat and loads rifle
The gunpowder is in an X because it's kinda shaped like an explosion
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Courtesy of /u/wombat:
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
