#rentierisation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rentierisation, aggregated by home.social.
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The Landlord’s Game
" Monopoly’s roots trace back to The Landlord’s Game (1903), created by Elizabeth Magie to critique monopolistic land ownership.
It featured two sets of rules – one emphasising wealth accumulation, the other wealth distribution. The aim was to demonstrate how different policy levers, taxing income versus taxing land, affect economic outcomes of players.
The two sets of rules in the Landlord’s Game demonstrate how wealth is either concentrated in the hands of landlords (taxing income) or is more fairly distributed across society (taxing land).
Monopoly reflects the world’s economic systems, embodying both the dream of wealth and the realities of financial inequality. "
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https://theconversation.com/90-years-of-monopoly-how-the-new-craze-morphed-from-socialist-critique-to-capitalist-dream-252738Landlordism, not supply, is causing the housing crisis >>
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/cities/2024/07/13/landlordism-the-lucky-country
#monopoly #regulation #housing #LandOwnership #landlordism #rentierisation #PayToPlay #culture #housing #HousingCrisis -
The Landlord’s Game
" Monopoly’s roots trace back to The Landlord’s Game (1903), created by Elizabeth Magie to critique monopolistic land ownership.
It featured two sets of rules – one emphasising wealth accumulation, the other wealth distribution. The aim was to demonstrate how different policy levers, taxing income versus taxing land, affect economic outcomes of players.
The two sets of rules in the Landlord’s Game demonstrate how wealth is either concentrated in the hands of landlords (taxing income) or is more fairly distributed across society (taxing land).
Monopoly reflects the world’s economic systems, embodying both the dream of wealth and the realities of financial inequality. "
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https://theconversation.com/90-years-of-monopoly-how-the-new-craze-morphed-from-socialist-critique-to-capitalist-dream-252738Landlordism, not supply, is causing the housing crisis >>
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/cities/2024/07/13/landlordism-the-lucky-country
#monopoly #regulation #housing #LandOwnership #landlordism #rentierisation #PayToPlay #culture #housing #HousingCrisis -
The housing shortage and wealth accumulation in Australia.
Houses/ 'homes' as commercial enterprises" In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation. It is part of our creation story. " Former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/need-for-housing-inspires-artist/105939626Plan to apply commercial council rates for short-stay rentals
"These properties operate as a commercial enterprise...They generate income and place higher demand on infrastructure and social services, similar to any hotel or motel."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/mount-gambier-council-short-stay-rates-airbnb-changes/105943950
#housing #homes #IndigenousDisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity #Airbnb #shortterm #accommodation #speculation #traffic #TourismImpacts #MultipleProperties #BellingenShire #commercialisation #suburbia #BAU #MeInc #SettlerSociety #narrative #landlordism #rentierisation -
The housing shortage and wealth accumulation in Australia.
Houses/ 'homes' as commercial enterprises" In Australia, the origin of the idea that housing is to be valued primarily as a commodity for producing private wealth is colonisation. It is part of our creation story. " Former Victorian Supreme Court justice Kevin Bell.
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/need-for-housing-inspires-artist/105939626Plan to apply commercial council rates for short-stay rentals
"These properties operate as a commercial enterprise...They generate income and place higher demand on infrastructure and social services, similar to any hotel or motel."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/mount-gambier-council-short-stay-rates-airbnb-changes/105943950
#housing #homes #IndigenousDisplacement #unhoused #inequality #insecurity #Airbnb #shortterm #accommodation #speculation #traffic #TourismImpacts #MultipleProperties #BellingenShire #commercialisation #suburbia #BAU #MeInc #SettlerSociety #narrative #landlordism #rentierisation