Ethan brother... This lands because you start where the system actually touches people: the body.
That 3:00 AM nausea isn’t ideology — it’s pattern recognition.
The most important move here is stripping the word “market” of its disguise. What you describe isn’t supply and demand — it’s coordinated extraction with empathy engineered out of the loop. Once pricing decisions are outsourced to software, moral restraint doesn’t fail — it’s deleted.
The three-layer structure is the key insight:
Algorithm fixes the ransom
Law subsidizes the extractor
Moral language anesthetizes the public
By the time anyone argues Left vs Right, the enclosure is already complete.
Calling this a subscription to exist is exactly right. Feudalism didn’t disappear — it just got a UX upgrade and a billing department.
This isn’t a housing crisis.
It’s a life-compression strategy.
Clear, sober, and hard to unsee once you’ve seen it.
Starting here! Thank you for your conscientious inclusion and links to previous and necessary articles. You always lay the foundation and follow it with bricks and mortar.
I appreciate your thoroughness and your writing style and thinking always is meaningful and matches my curiosity. I’m a big fan! Thank you so much.
We must have hope! Not fake empty platitudes - a deep heartfelt and soul felt hope for democracy and our United States.
This big picture summation of digital feudalism definitely makes me regret my time as a cog with RealPage as well as rethink the idea of legitimate economic development not very much present in so-called "Opportunity Zones" in places like Miami (which, of course, is about to construct the tallest building in the USA).
Really well written . Same fix in Canada btw. I like your reference to feudalism , yeah, same old same old. Now we are warehousing seniors citizens in a bedsitting room for the price of a mortgage payment. If they hate the idea, there is always Medical Aid in Dying. That works especially well for seniors needing to spend all their life savings for quality living somewhere but who would rather leave it to their grand kids.
I'd qualify for MAID. But they'd win that way.
At least we have universal medical coverage and work insurance for all the basics.
woah, this is really cool way to tell a story, I like it alot. I found the images too large and made finding the text pretty difficult but that might be the point. I feel the text in better proportion to the images would made this even stronger.
once people started holding on to house to rent instead of sell, when individuals realized they could be landlords too, let to where we are now.
if you let investors compete for the price of homes over those who would live there, of course the investors are going to price out everyone, eventually, until they own it all, this is inevitable if we don't stop it.
but it doens't stop there, they make it expensive to own a home, more than just the mortgage. they make the laws so being an individual with a home is nearly impossible unless you own it in the middle or no where, or you have at least 7k income a month.
i can help you solve this problem. by using ‘image description’ or ‘alt text’ perhaps, IDK, but I’ll help… before this iteration of me I worked in corporate world in accessibility support for a tech company. there are def ways to do this. I’m passionate about new ways of telling a narrative and you, my friend are the hottest thing i’ve come across so far in my search for resistance fiction AND innovative story telling.
And I can see - the “system” you so artfully describe is “The Idol”
- Faith - G-d can help - provide - is simply not there to be relied upon. 😄 For some reason that strikes me as hilarious. For it is G-d who created this earth to supply abundantly. It’s the hoarding and the battle for territory that has limited the earth’s abundance. We can all be greedy little ants scurrying around to get our needs met.
Who is gonna take care of us? Who is gonna provide for us?
Let’s follow that socialist piped piper who says the government will, and maybe he will lead us to our utopia! Nevertheless people do find a way to thrive within this greatly flawed idol system. We look to Heaven for help . Like cliches in system show up and walla - a door opens - help arrives - unexpectedly a prayer is answered. So I have hope. This flawed system is not forever. Only G-d is forever.
Look closely at the urban and US suburban neighbourhoods being ethnically cleansed by Noem’s I.C.E. You will see a pattern. Like Magadministration’s destruction of farmer’s so Vance & Co can buy up their big bank confiscated lands on the cheap for profitable redevelopmemt (Gaza/Ukraine ?), the clearing of areas where low paid workers reside through terror, allows the same predatory class to buy up these areas on the cheap.
They just did and will continue this week in Western Washington where I live. Just like Lahina HI, Paradise CA, Redding CA, Pacific Palisades CA, Santa Rosa CA, East Spokane WA, Talent OR. Fire or water. Next will be a catastrophic earthquake or Mt Rainer going off. Lasers and Popcorn anyone?
Apparently the soft communism that the country has been suffering under for some time is turning into the hard communism that so many in the world have suffered under and are still suffering under to this day. Bottom line? The rich rule just as they do in communist China and other communist places. Including the good 'ol USSA. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
LIQUIDITY. Trump's treasury quietly BAILED OUT BANKS AND WALL ST WITH A TOTAL OF 3-4 TRILLION DOLLARS. Small paragraph in Business journal.
Since at least 1980 the cry, "It's the DEBT!"
All the while 💰💰💰whatever "Market" needs/ DOD needs, gets covered.
Now they are yelling we can't afford Medicare for All, and we can't feed people. Of course not,
MORE TRILLIONS have gone out the door.
You know the litany: DOD,
DHS...and don't forget Congress RAISED their pay. Congress has NEVER STOPPED COLLECTING THEIR PAYCHECKS, HEALTHCARE, EXPENSE ACCOUNTS, even though most of them don't need it. To round it out: Winter "breaks," Spring "breaks," Summer "breaks," Fall "breaks." "BREAKS" no matter what is going on, or how urgent it is. Know you have seen all of this, but as many times as I have posted about 2020,
no response.
Congress continues to "argue" over a few Billion 💰, and we are emptying our pantries to help feed our neighbors. 😡😠😡
Well I don’t know about housing but locally the tax breaks have gone to companies that build office complexes then vacate as soon as the tax breaks run out then go elsewhere. Same gov’t offers more incentives to new companies who tear up more farms (yay amazon😡) lets see how long the new ones last.
Ethan brother... This lands because you start where the system actually touches people: the body.
That 3:00 AM nausea isn’t ideology — it’s pattern recognition.
The most important move here is stripping the word “market” of its disguise. What you describe isn’t supply and demand — it’s coordinated extraction with empathy engineered out of the loop. Once pricing decisions are outsourced to software, moral restraint doesn’t fail — it’s deleted.
The three-layer structure is the key insight:
Algorithm fixes the ransom
Law subsidizes the extractor
Moral language anesthetizes the public
By the time anyone argues Left vs Right, the enclosure is already complete.
Calling this a subscription to exist is exactly right. Feudalism didn’t disappear — it just got a UX upgrade and a billing department.
This isn’t a housing crisis.
It’s a life-compression strategy.
Clear, sober, and hard to unsee once you’ve seen it.
Exactly!
Well prepared, well presented and frightening.
Starting here! Thank you for your conscientious inclusion and links to previous and necessary articles. You always lay the foundation and follow it with bricks and mortar.
I appreciate your thoroughness and your writing style and thinking always is meaningful and matches my curiosity. I’m a big fan! Thank you so much.
We must have hope! Not fake empty platitudes - a deep heartfelt and soul felt hope for democracy and our United States.
"OUR", when has it been ours since it's inception? This is what it has turned into in the last 50 or more years. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
So sickening. Because ? Nothing will ever be done to fix it. Time for that is running out faster than a year does for a 99 year old.
This big picture summation of digital feudalism definitely makes me regret my time as a cog with RealPage as well as rethink the idea of legitimate economic development not very much present in so-called "Opportunity Zones" in places like Miami (which, of course, is about to construct the tallest building in the USA).
Tallest building in the USA which will fall into the Atlantic within 10 years
Maybe the Gulf of Mexico if they make it tall enough.
Really well written . Same fix in Canada btw. I like your reference to feudalism , yeah, same old same old. Now we are warehousing seniors citizens in a bedsitting room for the price of a mortgage payment. If they hate the idea, there is always Medical Aid in Dying. That works especially well for seniors needing to spend all their life savings for quality living somewhere but who would rather leave it to their grand kids.
I'd qualify for MAID. But they'd win that way.
At least we have universal medical coverage and work insurance for all the basics.
woah, this is really cool way to tell a story, I like it alot. I found the images too large and made finding the text pretty difficult but that might be the point. I feel the text in better proportion to the images would made this even stronger.
once people started holding on to house to rent instead of sell, when individuals realized they could be landlords too, let to where we are now.
if you let investors compete for the price of homes over those who would live there, of course the investors are going to price out everyone, eventually, until they own it all, this is inevitable if we don't stop it.
but it doens't stop there, they make it expensive to own a home, more than just the mortgage. they make the laws so being an individual with a home is nearly impossible unless you own it in the middle or no where, or you have at least 7k income a month.
fuck the landlords and fuck the police.
i can help you solve this problem. by using ‘image description’ or ‘alt text’ perhaps, IDK, but I’ll help… before this iteration of me I worked in corporate world in accessibility support for a tech company. there are def ways to do this. I’m passionate about new ways of telling a narrative and you, my friend are the hottest thing i’ve come across so far in my search for resistance fiction AND innovative story telling.
And I can see - the “system” you so artfully describe is “The Idol”
- Faith - G-d can help - provide - is simply not there to be relied upon. 😄 For some reason that strikes me as hilarious. For it is G-d who created this earth to supply abundantly. It’s the hoarding and the battle for territory that has limited the earth’s abundance. We can all be greedy little ants scurrying around to get our needs met.
Who is gonna take care of us? Who is gonna provide for us?
Let’s follow that socialist piped piper who says the government will, and maybe he will lead us to our utopia! Nevertheless people do find a way to thrive within this greatly flawed idol system. We look to Heaven for help . Like cliches in system show up and walla - a door opens - help arrives - unexpectedly a prayer is answered. So I have hope. This flawed system is not forever. Only G-d is forever.
Heaven help the fool.
I think they are using weapons to drive people out of homes and neighborhoods 🙏🙏🙏🎄
Look closely at the urban and US suburban neighbourhoods being ethnically cleansed by Noem’s I.C.E. You will see a pattern. Like Magadministration’s destruction of farmer’s so Vance & Co can buy up their big bank confiscated lands on the cheap for profitable redevelopmemt (Gaza/Ukraine ?), the clearing of areas where low paid workers reside through terror, allows the same predatory class to buy up these areas on the cheap.
They just did and will continue this week in Western Washington where I live. Just like Lahina HI, Paradise CA, Redding CA, Pacific Palisades CA, Santa Rosa CA, East Spokane WA, Talent OR. Fire or water. Next will be a catastrophic earthquake or Mt Rainer going off. Lasers and Popcorn anyone?
this was your best one ever. bravo. you promised me a secret link for a Black Friday price.
You’re disturbingly, accurately brilliant. Thank you for helping the angry old white lady army to rise articulately. Defiance til death.
Apparently the soft communism that the country has been suffering under for some time is turning into the hard communism that so many in the world have suffered under and are still suffering under to this day. Bottom line? The rich rule just as they do in communist China and other communist places. Including the good 'ol USSA. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Makes Perfect Sense,
yet again.💕 Thank you for your work.
March 2020 "Market" was crashing. Said it needed
LIQUIDITY. Trump's treasury quietly BAILED OUT BANKS AND WALL ST WITH A TOTAL OF 3-4 TRILLION DOLLARS. Small paragraph in Business journal.
Since at least 1980 the cry, "It's the DEBT!"
All the while 💰💰💰whatever "Market" needs/ DOD needs, gets covered.
Now they are yelling we can't afford Medicare for All, and we can't feed people. Of course not,
MORE TRILLIONS have gone out the door.
You know the litany: DOD,
DHS...and don't forget Congress RAISED their pay. Congress has NEVER STOPPED COLLECTING THEIR PAYCHECKS, HEALTHCARE, EXPENSE ACCOUNTS, even though most of them don't need it. To round it out: Winter "breaks," Spring "breaks," Summer "breaks," Fall "breaks." "BREAKS" no matter what is going on, or how urgent it is. Know you have seen all of this, but as many times as I have posted about 2020,
no response.
Congress continues to "argue" over a few Billion 💰, and we are emptying our pantries to help feed our neighbors. 😡😠😡
🗽🇺🇲🇺🇦
Well I don’t know about housing but locally the tax breaks have gone to companies that build office complexes then vacate as soon as the tax breaks run out then go elsewhere. Same gov’t offers more incentives to new companies who tear up more farms (yay amazon😡) lets see how long the new ones last.
STILL HAVE TO WORK AGE 71 TAX/SCHOOL TAX BOND FRAUD HOMESTEAD VALUATION TO BUDGET RATHER HOME VALUE…FRAUD IN THE TRILLIONS !!!
All part of the grand COMMUNIST plan. I “own” my home. WRONG. I have to pay rent to the county every year or they send armed men to evict me. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Capitalist plan…you’re welcome.