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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social |
That's what rent means: the entry fee you must surrender, over and above your payment for services received, to those who have captured the essential resources you need to survive and prosper. Rent is a kind of private tax, that the poor and middle must pay to the rich.
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Mihai Alevra
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That’s why there should be rations given for free per person, as unconditional human rights to resources. Emission rights, Energy, Water, land use… the industry should then have to buy them from the people. This would turn around the whole system of power.
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George Monbiot
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Rent, in other words, is a form of extortion: the payments we must make when capital has us over a barrel.
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