#rentseekers — Public Fediverse posts

An #empire collapses when the #wealth #inequality reaches a tipping point inside the empire and the #rentseekers show themselves to be nothing but leeches. There is a myth around empires and dynasties of the strong and scrappy that start the empire and subsequent generations that get weak and decadent. That is not the case. Empires get powerful by having a more equal society than the aging collapsing empire from inequality and rent seeking and then feeding off the dying empire or kingdom or smaller population to boost its prosperity. The equality of citizens of the new empire increase while the the inequality of the subjugated increases. At a certain point the greedy at the top want even more and begin to take more from citizens which causes it to collapse. The inequality and greed is what fuels the decadence, the #decadence is a symptom not a cause. A new nation has a more equal system and takes its place.
Example: China focused on nepotism over meritocracy. The mongols were mostly meritocratic and the most efficient fighting force. The post-Genghis hoards only lasted so long and they stuck with Meritocracy. For one thing local folks of the hoard knew they had a way up in this new system if they worked hard. After that went away, all support for the outsiders collapsed completely.

Its not a cycle of strength vs decadence but a cycle of equality vs inequality. It doesn't have to be very equal, just more equal than the last guy. Equality creates both efficiency and loyalty and makes one less likely to question the narrative of the powerful.

An #empire collapses when the #wealth #inequality reaches a tipping point inside the empire and the #rentseekers show themselves to be nothing but leeches. There is a myth around empires and dynasties of the strong and scrappy that start the empire and subsequent generations that get weak and decadent. That is not the case. Empires get powerful by having a more equal society than the aging collapsing empire from inequality and rent seeking and then feeding off the dying empire or kingdom or smaller population to boost its prosperity. The equality of citizens of the new empire increase while the the inequality of the subjugated increases. At a certain point the greedy at the top want even more and begin to take more from citizens which causes it to collapse. The inequality and greed is what fuels the decadence, the #decadence is a symptom not a cause. A new nation has a more equal system and takes its place.
Example: China focused on nepotism over meritocracy. The mongols were mostly meritocratic and the most efficient fighting force. The post-Genghis hoards only lasted so long and they stuck with Meritocracy. For one thing local folks of the hoard knew they had a way up in this new system if they worked hard. After that went away, all support for the outsiders collapsed completely.

Its not a cycle of strength vs decadence but a cycle of equality vs inequality. It doesn't have to be very equal, just more equal than the last guy. Equality creates both efficiency and loyalty and makes one less likely to question the narrative of the powerful.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

#scam #exploitation #rentSeekers #ForProfitIncarceration #Prisons

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

#scam #exploitation #rentSeekers #ForProfitIncarceration #Prisons

@angiebaby @davidaugust #ClownFlare aka. #CloudFlare are just #ValueRemoving #rentseekers and part of the Problem, not solution!

Their entire business model should not exist to begin with!!!

@yassie_j I mean I hate #CAPTCHAs as they are #ableist af and don't even work for anything but exclude #blind and #VisionImpaired people.

But since #bots are a problem, I can't just complain about #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers like #CloudFlare without proposing any alternative methods...

@JustinLachance @tod

The only thing any #LinkTax and #Paywalling does is drive people from "#Quality [#Mainsteam] #News Outlets" to questionable [tinfoilhatted] #FakeNews & #Propaganda #Media whist propping up some #ValueRemoving #Rentseekers in the form of #CollectingAgencies that also require more #Tracking and further #Enshittification!

@sigmasternchen Both #CloudFlare and #Link11 are #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers and equally bad!

@overcastfm Yeah, #CloudFlare are #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers:

Their whole #MusinessModel is just legalized #Racketeering and should neither exist nor be legal!

@trashheap @Raspberry_Pi The worse part of this is that #scalpers #botting their #distributors are the problem, and people buying from said #ValueRemoving #rentseekers instead of the distributors, when the only winning move is to starve those into insolvency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm0&t=108s

@Annalee I guess where you're going on that take...

Tho can we agree that #CloudFlare are #RentSeekers and that their #Business Model should not exist to begin with?

#TechnoFeudalism #Capitalism #RentSeekers #EVs #RightToRepair
“But capitalism has finally run out of gas. In his forthcoming book, Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died – but it wasn't replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:…

“Today, we live in a rentier's paradise. People don't aspire to create value – they aspire to capture it. In Survival of the Richest, Doug Rushkoff calls this "going meta": don't provide a service, just figure out a way to interpose yourself between the provider and the customer:…”

From: @PhilippBayer
https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/110783150336028259

#TechnoFeudalism #Capitalism #RentSeekers #EVs #RightToRepair
“But capitalism has finally run out of gas. In his forthcoming book, Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died – but it wasn't replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:…

“Today, we live in a rentier's paradise. People don't aspire to create value – they aspire to capture it. In Survival of the Richest, Doug Rushkoff calls this "going meta": don't provide a service, just figure out a way to interpose yourself between the provider and the customer:…”

From: @PhilippBayer
https://genomic.social/@PhilippBayer/110783150336028259

#TorGuard and #CloudFlare are good indicators of everything that's wrong with #ITsec:

Mainly that the business model is full of #ValueRemoving #Rentseekers that sell #DigitalSnakeoil that'll only impress #TechIlliterates that have no idea what they talk about...

But don't take my word for it:
http://kaizushih5iec2mxohpvbt5uaapqdnbluaasa2cmsrrjtwrbx46cnaid.onion/page.php?q=blog&b=this-some-serious-bullshit-mah-nigga

@atomicpoet they don't add anything to it, #BlueSky are #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers - period!

:boost_ok: #FollowerPower: Does anyone know a #distributor that actually sells @Raspberry_Pi / #RaspberryPi #PiZero v1.3 / #Pi0 1.3 (NOT #Pi0W / #Pi0W2!) at #MSRP or at least not beyond 300% of it?
Cuz all I see are shitty #scammers and #ValueRemoving #rentseekers aka. [unofficial!] "#resellers" that charge 1.000% - >2.000% of the MSRP and they seem to #bot all the shops empty.
Like it's worse than with the #PS5 & #XboxSeriesX, and that's already shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6eM5OZtm0

@hkrn All #CA's are bad #rentseekers per design and they have too much power and not enough #accountability for that.

@cy
Trust is good. As long as we are trusting something solid.

So the fiat ppl are trusting a few fat cats who serve #specialInterests (the #fortune500, #rentseekers even if they become supplicants or zombies corporations) which many now are. They are also trusting weapons to defend USD.

The bitcoiners are trusting a network of people that have access to at least some energy, and a **large**, pool of computer scientists who have been quite meticulous in forging it.

The latter will prevail.

@anubis2814
Yes, #speculation is a #fiat issue stemming from corrupt #moneyPrinting + #rentseekers.

Say "#nimbyism" to small towns in #Europe that are still close to their #farmland and still have a defendable #culture. If being a #NIMBY is about a short #farmToPlate distance maybe we need more of it, not less.

Vertical sprawl = delayed #urbanSprawl, just wait a generation.

We don't have democratically elected #leaders, we have a #corporateState.

#stopTheLoop #useBitcoinCore #townHomes

@icedquinn
It seems that people who just want to ensure decent #housing today are, at every opportunity (ie. opportunistically), out-competed by #rentseekers that pile multiple #dwellings on a block with no #restorative, private outdoor space.

Our #Australian govt and #legacyMedia have been active #perpetrators of this #sociopathy

It needs to stop. We thought covid would bring these issues into focus but they are doubling-down on #distraction as they #printMoney for themselves.

We looked up #anarchist in the dictionary.

The definition says "resist #overdevelopment, #corporateState totalitarianism (#fascism), resist #monopoly, are #antiWar, resist deliberately obfiscated #bureaucracy, and other #rentseekers and despise #BigTech including #Cloudflare, who they see as destroying #society and #environment.

Wow – thanks highly detailed dictionary, and #anarchism!

@falgsc
Seeing #China go after #BigTech and big #propertySpeculators is something dreams are made of, also.

We hope #Australia are taking notes.

#rentseekers #tooBigToExist

@iLikeAltitude
Many ppl do not know who they are paying #economicRents too, and importantly why.

It may as well be #aMafia.

There are a host of #grifters that just need to '#stop', and we mean that in many senses of the word — its not even funny.

Most are having their #IQ lowered now. The #magnaCarta or even just understanding #local affairs is getting out of reach.

#xr #rentseekers #trusts #megaMachine #corporatists #moneyPrinterGoBrr #bigProperty #construction #propertyCouncil #land

This week #MaxKeiser made an interesting point about #Australia's #hotelQuarantine system.

Australia has an extreme number of outrageous #financialProducts designed to prop up #rentseekers and #bankers at the expense of #savers. Rather than taper markets w lower #moneyPrinting or raising #interestRates he posits #hotelQuarantine is used to remove people from the economy.

It may sound conspiratorial, but judging by #building proposals we see a growing weaponisation of #COVID and #mentalHealth.

They say:

> "Building vibrant, sustainable #communities".

What we get:

> Multi-story shoebox dwellings that could collapse, are hot, crowded, induce #mentalIllness especially in #children.

Sustainable – for whom?

#vibrancy #communityWashing #propertyCouncil #builders #bigConstruction #construction #realEstate #speculation #landGrab #artistsImpressions #greenWashing #sustainable #banks #doingGodsWork #privateEquity #rentseekers #gentrifiers #gentrification #overdevelopment #bitcoinFixesThis

@seankearney

There are laws against #violence, we don't need #corporatists, CEOs, #politicalDonors to both major parties protected by some #hateSpeek law - that will generally protect them from real and needed critique.

They are trying to enact it, saying it can be used to protect one group but make no mistake it will be used against the #proletariat.

#taxAvoidance #panamaPapers #fauxlanthopy #rentseekers #cronyists #nepotists #eatTheRich

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What's really egregious are the #kleptocrats and #sophists the #CorporateState chose to head the report — individuals that got us into this mess!

See #InnesWillox, shill for glorified #PropertyDevelopers (we mean #universites), the #MigrationCouncil and other #speculators and #rentseekers. Two years ago, he was all too happy to make us vulnerable.

Four Corners did a good job of highlighting others on the "commission".

Well done, Four Corners! Maybe, the last #journalists in Australia.

5/5… If there are too few renters, then the local residents ought to be given a proporation of the property starting from adjacent residents and progressively moving outwards, to residents within 50 metres, 100metres, 200m, 500m, 1km, 2km etc until sufficient #democratic ownership of the #land/#property is achieved.

Do #rentseekers need to learn that tacit corruption and cronyism cannot pay? Can a progressive LandTax alone solve the issue?

What do you think?

Anyone still in the business of spruiking #propertyPrices needs to have their head… we don't know what to do with their head – just keep away from #scum.

#spruikers #housePrices #confidenceTricks #growthIdeology #ScottyFromMarketting #ScottMorrison #scummo #rentSeekers #speculators #dissociativeDisorder #psychopaths #bullshitJobs #societalIlls

Anyone who is still in the business of spruiking #propertyPrices needs to have their head… we don't know what to do with their head – keep away from bad people.

#spruikers #housePrices #confidenceTricks #growthIdeology #ScottyFromMarketting #ScottMorrison #scummo #rentSeekers #speculators #dissociativeDisorder #psychopaths #societalIlls

@cypnk
You'd have thought that post-COVID, govts would know better than to indulge the #gentrifiers, #rentSeekers, and #speculators, but no.

At least in #Australia the #oligarchs are marching ahead with their destructive, #highrise third-worldisation process.

Most so-called leaders in this country are rentSeekers themselves or sychophants to their #corporateDonors.

@lj_writes
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There are going to be bad apples in any bunch. We cannot single out #environmentalists any more than #religiousGroups that believe when people die, that's Gods way. Or #capitalists who believe that the 99% don't work hard enough. Or #slavetrade operators, #rentSeekers and rabid #shareholders who want to suck all the #productiveValue from the masses while paying them a pittance and #evadingTaxes that might help pay for #publicGoods like #healthcare.

The bad exist...(2/4)

@DissidentKitty
But how about that #shadowGovernment (aka #deepState) of #lobbyists, #landholders, #technocrats, #bankers, #rentseekers, #theives, #murderers, #childTraffickers, #drugTraffickers and "#intelligenceAgents"?

Dunno - maybe they are good specifically *because* they killed that pesky politician, #Kennedy? ;)

https://invidio.us/watch?v=b1zB2mcotn0