This reminds me of all the shit I went through on SB over the years, trying to warn people about the coming techno-feudalism only to be mocked and rebuffed at every turn. Ten whole-ass years ago, I was saying that if we didn’t do something drastic, oligarchs would set themselves up as perpetual rentiers and force us all into serfdom underneath them. Granted, my perspective was a bit different back then; I actually advocated for a lot of the same things the Davos nutcases wanted, not realizing that shit was the Elites’ plan all along.
I cannot imagine how anyone could possibly be comfortable with what’s happening to us. The Elites are happily stripping us of our land and resources. If you have no property, then you also have no rights. If you rent everything you need to live (i.e. life under a Netflix subscription model), then all the powers-that-be need to do in order to cut you off entirely is to shut down your bank account, like the Canadian trucker protesters. This creates a mechanism for despicable and tyrannical acts of mass coercion.
Couldn’t people see it, even back then? This is where all the environmental rhetoric leads; a bunch of technocratic Malthusian wackos in power, deciding to ration shit out to the plebs at their leisure.