@ChrisMayLA6
As a further reflection on this topic, I commend this "From Cradle to Grav
#wealthExtraction #PublicServices #Privatisation #rentierism #PPI #UKpolitics

Australian wealth inequality frays the social fabric

"The top 10% of households now control 44% of all wealth in Australia. The collective wealth of the richest 200 Australians has nearly tripled over two decades, mostly from property and resources – economic activities that extract value from existing assets rather than new productive capacities; what economists call “rent-seeking”.

"Rent-seeking concentrates wealth away from productivity-enhancing investments – in business innovation, public infrastructure and worker wages. This leaves ordinary people paying ever-higher proportions of their income for necessities. Ordinary Australians have little to celebrate."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/neoliberalism-lite-is-no-solution-to-australias-cost-of-living-and-productivity-crises-its-time-to-curb-wealth-concentration
#inequality #WealthCapture #RentSeeking #housing #rentierism #unproductivity #ActiveProduction #wages #extractivism

Housing - YIMBYs, NIMBYs and mass evictions at gunpoint

Lily Sánchez, You’re Not Angry Enough About Homelessness in America
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/youre-not-angry-enough-about-homelessness-in-america

"We need to ensure we’re building homes, not investment portfolios."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-13/yimby-nimby-housing-crisis-battle-for-your-backyard/105510984

Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/13/great-job-good-education-no-home-is-australias-bloated-property-market-destroying-the-middle-class
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#housing #unhoused #sprawl #affordability #AffordableHousing #wages #speculation #rentierism #mobility #relocation #cars #Carparks #warehousing #camp #nomos #biopolitics #NIMBY #YIMBY #SettlerSociety

@kkarhan @jrdepriest 'Discovered' today, that hot-desking is not about office efficiency; in fact it's counterproductive and destroys comms. It's about real estate prices, plain and simple.

#rentierism

[Accidental Gods] Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate #accidentalGods
https://podcastaddict.com/accidental-gods/episode/199583538

Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted “end the housing racket” and “landlords are guilty, the government is responsible”.
#rentierism #Landlords #Landlord_is_not_a_job
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/spain-protest-march-housing-crisis

“For MIT to continue to pay millions of dollars to corporations that lock up the scholarship that comes out of our own campus was just inconsistent with MIT’s history of supporting open education and research,” said Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT.
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/
#monopoly #rentierism

The presence of koalas devalues land in settler society

"The Myrtle Beach centre was once on virgin land (?) and is now surrounded by high-rise buildings on three sides, with the ocean on the remaining side. A stunning eastern vista offers views of Mudjimba and Maroochydore beaches, Mount Coolum, the Maroochy River and protected wetlands. Several real estate experts placed the value of Avatar's Abode at more than $20 million, at a time when similarly sized Wises' farm at nearby Buderim is expected to fetch more than $50 million."

"However, one valuer said a significant koala habitat on the land and its rural zoning could diminish the land's worth to as low as $5 million for prospective developers."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-25/avatars-abode-sunshine-coast-property-meher-baba-followers/104246626
#koalas #values #SettlerSociety #rentierism #biodiversity

OnlineFirst - "Corporate power and the rise of intangibles: A study of Indian firms" by Rahul A Sirohi:

#rentierism #intangibles #neoliberalism #monopoly #corporatepower #India

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231216536

The planet doesn't care if you have a title to collect the rent of a lovely beach front or downtown property. If it wants it it will just take it, and often you with it. #LandValueTax not #rentierism

Chokepoint Capitalism review – art for sale | Books | The Guardian “We have entered a new era of “chokepoint capitalism”, in which businesses snake their way between audiences and creatives to harvest money that should rightfully belong to the artist.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/24/chokepoint-capitalism-review-art-for-sale #rentierism #ChokepointCapitalism

Robert Reich @rbrecich@mast.ai on the consequences of #capitalism without guardrails and the empirical evidence disproving expectations of Chicago School #trickledowneconomics. We *need* #antitrust b/c capitalism w/o guardrails is nothing more than winner-take-all private #rentierism. (Rentierism = profits above what a well functioning market would allocate. Profits from #pricegauging," for example, are an example of this kind of "economic rent.")
https://youtu.be/KLfO-2t1qPQ