Okay so I'm going to subtweet some Discourse going on in my TL right now, with the disclaimer up front that all of this is completely hypothetical as far as my own life goes (I've never collected rent from anyone): Suppose my parents die and leave me my childhood home
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Do I think everything was great when the middle and upper classes in America actually had servants, no, obviously not But is the "gig economy" where you have no relationship to the people driving you around other than hitting a button to summon them better for the workers? Idk
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It's not better for workers. Master-servant is a fossilized feudal relationship like landlord-tenant, and under feudalism the idea was that the subordinate got some kind of patronage or protection benefit out of giving up so much autonomy. The gig economy gets rid of that. But...
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I'd argue it DOES make you a worse person. Not everyone subletting their apartment becomes a monster or anything, most handle it OK - but if you give 100 people that kind of individual power in the current system, a much higher percentage will abuse it than under diffuse systems.
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Ultimately anyone with a US citizenship who doesn't live in abject poverty benefits from some kind of relationship with diffused systems of exploitation, because we're sucking so many resources from the Global South. So that forms the baseline of fucked-up we already exist under.
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