Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Thesis: taxation is theft Antithesis: ownership is theft Synthesis: neither of those are theft. renting is theft.

Oligarchs hate the idea of selling capital because a sale is a transfer of ownership, and ownership is power Oligarchs love renting capital, because that means they get to eat their cake (get money out of it by allowing others to use it) and have it too (they still own it)

Spotify is rented music. Netflix is rented film. Microsoft Office is a rented toolkit. Cities are rented housing. Rent, rent, rent. The destruction of the paradigm of ownership transfer between producer and consumer is strangling us.

A cyclic economy, where both money and matériel flow from producer to consumer and back, enables unequal but peered participation by the socioeconomic underclass. Buying allows the purchaser to have autonomy with their purchased goods. This is antithetical to oligarchic capital.

The oligarchs don't want to surrender money, through taxes or wages, and they don't want to surrender goods, through sales. One outcome of this cycle is the monopsony, where we use government or other collectives to purchase with ownership rather than rent.

This is not an endpoint, because now ownership is transferred from the producer to the collective, but still not to the individual. Replicable goods MUST have ownership moved to the individual, and irreplacable MUST be distributed without rent-seeking.

I sincerely believe that a democratic, liberated society is fundamentally incompatible with accumulated power. I fully believe every individual must have the ability to acquire ownership and autonomy, but the snowball effect creates oligarchs, and that must be destroyed.

Economic liberty means not renting from tyrants who dictate how we may choose to use what we rent and may seize it back from us if we displease them.