(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Anti-Capitalist Meetup: I'm a techno fossil feudal landlord [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-09 Before telling my story, allow me to direct your attention to the upcoming Beyond Growth conference, May 15-17, 2023 hosted by the EU Parliament and the 9th International Degrowth Conference 2023 Aug29-Sept02 out of Zegreb, Croatia. Degrowth goes back over 50 years. Some participants report from S Asia, Philippines and Australia, though most participants have reported from N America and Europe. We have a lot of room for just degrowth with more equitable opportunity and wealth distribution in Western countries. Other less well off countries need to think more about limiting growth or climate mitigation and reparations. The 12 principles of permaculture can help a lot too. Why haul more material when you have plenty on hand? Adding simple concepts together can make a big difference. Now here is my landlord story in 20 minutes. I didn’t set out to be a landlord, but that is where I am. Rather be a scientist, blah, blah, blah. My real estate savvy spouse got us into it at the right time, etc. Anyway, being a landlord saved me when science fell through. I am very proud of what spouse has accomplished and what we do. Repairing windows last week, cleaning backed up drain last night and going to chop down tree this evening tell me so. It’s how things work. That is what we all keep telling ourselves, that is how thing’s work. We need to redecorate and install the latest flooring, fixtures and appliances. How else we gonna profit from housing? We have to lay sod and plant trees, cause that is how it works. It doesn’t look right with seed and saplings. All of the work, new stuff and trashing old stuff uses energy we’re not paying for. We’re racing around to keep up and make a living in a world where our children will cover our costs long past time anybody cares about my yard. Thanks to our fossil fuel addiction, we can do most anything, and we do. How long until I have to get a robot concrete carver to keep up with the latest designs? Nice thing is that I don’t have to see tenants hardly at all. It’s mostly to get them started or to fix stuff. Honestly, the spouse does most of that anyway. I’m considered better at digging trenches than discussing rental options. Even for the spouse, technology keeps us mostly remote from tenants. In the old days, lords had to work directly with tenants. Now, with money, financing, transportation, and international trade, we interact a lot through bank transactions. I look around my neighborhood and I see at least 30 chickens being raised. It seems like we could consolidate some effort, and produce for local consumption. Many put harvest in cars and transport it to friends and family somewhere else. We all do what we want on our own property. That is probably fine for me. I probably let chickens wander and take more chances with predators than most. I’ve got bigger plans than that anyway. I could up my chicken production until neighbors complain, but what is that going to do for me. Nah, I need more, and I found the solution. You see, I found that earthworms are a largely unknown source of adenochrome, that, by their own projection, is widely known to be craved among the large number of devil worshiping Republican pedophiles. Maybe they prefer to sacrifice children, I don’t know. As an entrepreneur and land owner, I can give them an alternative. My plan is to excavate the soil from my property and and extract the adenochrome in my giant patented soil adenochrome extractor. Before anybody else can get the patented technology or my community can enforce nuisance soil extraction regulations, I can have all my harvest packed and sold as greenandblue’s pretty good adenochrome. It doesn’t matter if the land is degraded. I’m moving to Hawaii. Let the neighbors deal with the mud. That is all I have time for. My 20 minutes are up. I have to go help cut a tree down at one of our houses. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/9/2163023/-Anti-Capitalist-Meetup-I-m-a-techno-fossil-feudal-landlord Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/