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  • JustSo [she/her, any]
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    2 days ago

    Oh yeah, really good point.

    I wonder if these costco-communes would be particularly ripe for tenant union organising efforts a short way down the line.

    Backdoor the corpos and give em more fronts to worry about.

    edit: regardless we'll probably see some #OccupyCostco within 3 years after some bad eviction stories.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      They'll be ripe for organization, and giving the tenants a unified target will be easier, but just because it's easier to organize against a real entity that isn't totally abstracted and obfuscated, doesn't mean it's easier to actually accomplish anything.

      Feudalism lasted for millennia with over a thousand years of stories about peasants rising up against kings before capitalism finally killed it. Even then, he kings just turned into C-Suite zombies.