Damn, the effortpost looks good on you, comrade :stalin-heart:
Isn’t that kind of the point? If you can afford the land, upkeep and community are relatively easy. That’s why the richest people have picked all the low hanging fruit and uprooted the trees that produced it
It’s funny that Mao is associated with the death of the landlords when all he had to do was discontinue the practice of putting down peasant uprisings. The peasants needed little in terms of empowerment. They just needed someone to get out of their way
They’ve been coming for parks for a while now. The first tenants’ unions in my area, by almost 5 years, were at local trailer parks whose water was so full of sediment that using it to wash your clothes would rip them up and stain them. Our area is cheap for rent, too. A couple years back I rented a house for $850, no roommates, utilities included. Meanwhile, rent for a “new” trailer? $1200. They suck people in by showing them prices for lot rent and try to hide the actual price until someone’s already signed the contract. And once you’ve signed, they can technically just not rent it out and take you to court for the full amount of the lease if you break it, but they’ll usually just be happy to take your first-and-last-plus-deposit
I used to work at a resort for rich people. Like Old Money RICH people. Instead of renting a wedding venue, they’d gift the venue a historically-accurate remodeling project for all of their flooring and replace their chandelier with a period piece from their collection. And then they’d get gifted a reservation. Shit like that. We’d cater for these giant parties that were just in some rich fuck’s house. Like I’d wake up, eat a grilled cheese sandwich with Kraft singles and then go serve dinner at The Kraft House, which was the summer home owned by the grandson of the dude who invented pre sliced cheese or some shit like that.
I’m going to say pretty definitively that many of these people consider their domination of the world to be a moral good. Like if they had a relative who was not participating in the cycles of wealth accumulation like everyone else, we’d pick up bits of gossip and these people were morally outraged that people were not doing their part and living up to their potential.
I lived my whole life feeling like nothing made sense and that everyone was living by these arbitrary rules that they couldn’t explain and made their lives worse. Working that job, for the first time, I saw who the rules were made for and everything clicked. It was like seeing a species in the wild that I’d only seen in captivity. By far the most radicalizing job I’ve ever worked.
Can it be a dress rehearsal?
Nathan: No, I found this Reddit post that says that’s [reads slowly, staring at phone] co-opting tankie aesthetics. So I don’t think we’re allowed to do that