• mobyduck648@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Literally the mentality of the English land-owning gentry enclosing the ancient commons and driving people off the land into dependency on them. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now.

    It’s straight up kleptoparasite mentality.

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      6 days ago

      It’s been the central mentality of the owning class since the ability to individually own the means of production was conceived.

      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        They won’t care about rent-seeking without their brains. There’s a simple solution to these problems, we just have to do it. It’s easy and fun, so I hear. I’m willing to be the first, I’ll accept those dirty hands