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> access to real resources owned and controlled by the few. What’s an example of such a real resource?
by andsoitis 3mo ago
> access to real resources owned and controlled by the few.
What’s an example of such a real resource?
- danans 3mo agoLand, housing, water, energy, food, medicines, healthcare, security, and proximity to influence. I'm sure I forgot a few.
- andsoitis 3mo ago> Land, housing, water, energy, food, medicines, healthcare, security, and proximity to influence. I'm sure I forgot a few. And you think the vast majority of people do not have access to the overwhelming majority of those things? The evidence suggests the opposite. The only item in your list I would agree with is "proximity to influence", but it is also the one thing that is totally different from the others in the list.
- danans 3mo ago> And you think the vast majority of people do not have access to the overwhelming majority of those things? The evidence suggests the opposite. The comment I responded to asked: > Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zealots when society breaks down? I didn't say we are there now. Responding to the parent's question about a dystopian future scenario, I said that those are the resources that will become controlled by the few if "society breaks down" due to technofeudalism.
- swiftcoder 3mo agoAbility to purchase (legal) force. Whoever pays the Pinkertons owns the means of production.