Defining characteristic of #RentierSociety is trauma leveraged to maintain order.

Suffering transformed—as justification for imparting suffering to others. Harm articulated as just cause for acting out of self-interest to exclusion of all other concerns.

Where class consciousness is the lynchpin of capitalist society, #perquisitive #classposture is the tension spring of rentier society. Redress not as revolution, but as redemption—going back to promises so as not to go back renegation of same.

TFW, a printer that ought to just have an Ethernet jack standard, instead requires one set up a separate wifi network for it, or else when there's a router reboot it will connect to the repeater at the other end of the house and then refuse to go back to the stronger signal (upon the router coming back up) without being power cycled.

Because just plugging the fucking thing into the network with a physical cable is something the printer company wants to be able to charge an extra $100 for, without the physical device otherwise being any different but for casing that does or doesn't have a hole and firmware that does or doesn't allow one to switch from wifi to lan.

#RentierSociety is this.

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.

Yes, Usian #FifthEstate has unprecedented power as compared to police as experienced in other places and times.

Absent a concerted check on systems of power, a massive disruption of and dismantling of all the five estates of #RentierSociety, the fifth estate will only further concentrate and intensify its unrivaled capacity for violence.

Generations of #tensegrity ratchet will not be unwound easily. Nonetheless a system that harnesses gravity to hold itself aloft offers no promise of collapse.

FFS, we've gone from covid-brain-is-why-bad-politics ableist discourse to leaded-fuel-was-why-bad-politics ableist discourse.

Time for some unfollowing.

All variations on "racism is a mental disorder" nonsense.

#RentierSociety is not, never has been, and never will be, an issue of "if only there weren't so many people with brain pathology".

Indeed, "if only there weren't so many people with brain pathology", that commitment, is a big part of how we get rentier society, how we get fascism.

Estates of #RentierSociety do not want to "help house our homeless". Rather, #disaccommodation #classposture has been a national project since the close of the Civil War:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112698277241990971

To be without accommodation, to be unaccommodated, to be nuisance, is to underwrite #EgoValue of #perquisitive classposture, while keeping those of #conveyancée classposture in line.

To be disaccommodation classposture is to exist as living morality play for others—there but by grace of #compliancism.