From the Second Circuit Court decision:
“the library eBook lending market is thriving… [p]ublishers and their authors have tapped into a profitable, growing market.”
Pure #RentierSociety. Celebration of #RentBounty and glorification of bounty-motive.
Despite the colloquial use of the word "profit" in the wording above, digital lending licensing is exclusively extractive, entirely a matter of rent sought by way of resource control. There's no production here, only usury in another form.
It is that suspension of disbelief, all too easily elicited, that the first estate, #KayfabePanto, that opiate named electoralism, subsists upon.
That is their #RentBounty harvest: the #EgoValue that manifests, like zero-point energy, from the willing suspension of disbelief that accrues in the empty spaces of floating signification.
Our task is to be far less willing.
Which is to say, #RentierSociety is not capitalist society, yet neither any sort of "neo"-feudalism.
Where estates of the realm checked power of king by checking the power of each the other…
Estates of rentier society check power of each #classposture which #tensegrity cultivates for #RentBounty harvest…
Very power of those so subjugated being the crop: #conveyancée, levied for exchange value; #disaccommodation, tilled for #EgoValue; #conquistadas, reproductive labor-power, itself, harnessed.
Aglithaculture very specifically requires we be sick all the time.
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112255506114867344
Diseases as crops for #RentBounty harvest.
On further consideration, have taken notes from etymology to dub such sickwork industry, discussed at length above, with a new term: ⚚ aglithaculture ⚚ Literally, cultivation of affliction. Here, by way of etymology, also capturing the senses of ableist shame and medical gaslighting. To differentiate aglithaculture from any claim to medicine, note above use of stylized caduceus—carried by heralds as a ward against profanation or trespass into their domain; yet later associated with alchemy.
Will not warn you against the saneism again.
Again, to my point, more durable protection can be achieved via better design that doesn't favor rapid turnaround over efficacy.
But the love affair of #RentierSociety with our aglithacultural industry ensures that other technologies less focused on rapid marketability—less focused on repeated harvest of #RentBounty—are less visible as alternatives.
We know mRNA has limitations. We don't fix them by throwing more mRNA at the problem.
Now, where #lumpentheory must still navigate traps is in discussion of society as #RentierSociety.
Here, we must hold steadfast to articulation of #RentBounty-motive as a colonial relation, one which includes #perquisitive extraction.
Here, rent-seeking encompasses any and all unproductive and nonproductive relations whereby value is extracted through dispossession of others.
Perquisition, a thorough seeking for perks, as a subset of rent-seeking, is the defining relation of rentier society.
ALICE is a cute acronym for what is more-or-less #conveyancée #classposture.
Not entirely, not exactly, as to be conveyancée is to be a conduit of exchange-value #RentBounty harvest, whether that flow of colonial extraction originates as a paycheck or otherwise.
Nor is ALICE postural—but rather categorical—where one may code-switch from conveyancée to #disaccommodation to #perquisitive and back again over course of a day; the definition of ALICE does not preclude homelessness.
When #lumpentheory speaks of #conveyancée #classposture under #RentierSociety, this includes all material relations where the individual is rendered as a conduit for extraction of #RentBounty harvest.
Not simply one's landlord—where the rent-bounty relation is made explicit, nor even one's creditors—but also every industry whose existence is predicated on the mere existence of one's body as source of exchange-value, however that exchange-value may originate.
Thus we have the sickwork industry.
If the two premier sources of wage-labor job growth in your vaunted economy are too embarrassing not to skip right over and talk about something else, maybe line goes up ain't the way to organize a society.
Economy's booming because of all the sickness those of oligarch #classposture get to harvest #RentBounty from!
Huzzah!
Thank Vibe'n that restaurants & entertainment industries also happen to be hiring, or else how would we distract from fact that over one in four new jobs in past year were in healthcare, and another estimated 50 thousand new jobs nationally, at minimum, were newly hired local police?
(~13% of local gov't jobs are police, local gov't jobs increased by 376K in past 12 months.)
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.