#rentierism — Public Fediverse posts

A rentier economy running underneath will keep pulling value upward regardless of what sits above it.

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#LandValueTax #Rentierism #The4thWay

The #Land Lord's Game

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in...

* Australia's housing market >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/common-wealth-house-prices-land-resource-taxation/106852936

* Rentierism
describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

* Financialisation
"is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

* Expansionism
Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

* Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

* 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
#land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

Unsheltered in the wide open spaces

Unhoused in Australia: "‘A sobering indictment’: 14 homeless people die a year in public parks or countryside in Australia, analysis finds:"

"Between 2010 and 2020, 54 rough sleepers died in public parks, the analysis shows. Eighty-five homeless Australians died in countryside areas – including in bushland, desert, beaches and riverbanks – in the same period...It is a sobering indictment of societal abandonment and systemic failure." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/09/homeless-people-deaths-per-year-australia-ntwnfb

The human right to adequate housing. Housing is a right, not a commodity
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing
#housing #precariousness #abandonment #HomelessnessCrisis #AffordableHousing #PublicHousing #privatisation #DecadesOfNeglect #HumanRights #homelessness #Unhoused #FamilyViolence #SettlerSociety #commodity #rentierism

@ChrisMayLA6
As a further reflection on this topic, I commend this "From Cradle to Grav
#wealthExtraction #PublicServices #Privatisation #rentierism #PPI #UKpolitics

Australian wealth inequality frays the social fabric

"The top 10% of households now control 44% of all wealth in Australia. The collective wealth of the richest 200 Australians has nearly tripled over two decades, mostly from property and resources – economic activities that extract value from existing assets rather than new productive capacities; what economists call “rent-seeking”.

"Rent-seeking concentrates wealth away from productivity-enhancing investments – in business innovation, public infrastructure and worker wages. This leaves ordinary people paying ever-higher proportions of their income for necessities. Ordinary Australians have little to celebrate."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/neoliberalism-lite-is-no-solution-to-australias-cost-of-living-and-productivity-crises-its-time-to-curb-wealth-concentration
#inequality #WealthCapture #RentSeeking #housing #rentierism #unproductivity #ActiveProduction #wages #extractivism

Housing - YIMBYs, NIMBYs and mass evictions at gunpoint

Lily Sánchez, You’re Not Angry Enough About Homelessness in America
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/youre-not-angry-enough-about-homelessness-in-america

"We need to ensure we’re building homes, not investment portfolios."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-13/yimby-nimby-housing-crisis-battle-for-your-backyard/105510984

Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/13/great-job-good-education-no-home-is-australias-bloated-property-market-destroying-the-middle-class
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#housing #unhoused #sprawl #affordability #AffordableHousing #wages #speculation #rentierism #mobility #relocation #cars #Carparks #warehousing #camp #nomos #biopolitics #NIMBY #YIMBY #SettlerSociety

Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted “end the housing racket” and “landlords are guilty, the government is responsible”.
#rentierism #Landlords #Landlord_is_not_a_job
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/spain-protest-march-housing-crisis

“For MIT to continue to pay millions of dollars to corporations that lock up the scholarship that comes out of our own campus was just inconsistent with MIT’s history of supporting open education and research,” said Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT.
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/
#monopoly #rentierism

The presence of koalas devalues land in settler society

"The Myrtle Beach centre was once on virgin land (?) and is now surrounded by high-rise buildings on three sides, with the ocean on the remaining side. A stunning eastern vista offers views of Mudjimba and Maroochydore beaches, Mount Coolum, the Maroochy River and protected wetlands. Several real estate experts placed the value of Avatar's Abode at more than $20 million, at a time when similarly sized Wises' farm at nearby Buderim is expected to fetch more than $50 million."

"However, one valuer said a significant koala habitat on the land and its rural zoning could diminish the land's worth to as low as $5 million for prospective developers."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-25/avatars-abode-sunshine-coast-property-meher-baba-followers/104246626
#koalas #values #SettlerSociety #rentierism #biodiversity

OnlineFirst - "Corporate power and the rise of intangibles: A study of Indian firms" by Rahul A Sirohi:

#rentierism #intangibles #neoliberalism #monopoly #corporatepower #India

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231216536

The planet doesn't care if you have a title to collect the rent of a lovely beach front or downtown property. If it wants it it will just take it, and often you with it. #LandValueTax not #rentierism

Chokepoint Capitalism review – art for sale | Books | The Guardian “We have entered a new era of “chokepoint capitalism”, in which businesses snake their way between audiences and creatives to harvest money that should rightfully belong to the artist.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/24/chokepoint-capitalism-review-art-for-sale #rentierism #ChokepointCapitalism