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Call me a peasant any day cause overnight oats are delicious. Here’s my recipe you are now asking yourselves for: 1/4 cup steel cut oats, 1 Tbsp chia seeds, a glob of honey, 1/8 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 3/4 cup of milk, then in the morning add 1/4 cup crushed walnuts and a ton of blueberries.

Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s gruel o’clock for this peasant.

I actually don't mind people who want to live in tiny homes. After all, it's our societal fixation on mcmansions and suburban sprawl for all that has caused us to pass restrictive zoning laws and parking minimums and setback requirements and everything, which have created an artificial scarcity of housing. And it's this artificial scarcity of housing that investors, speculators, landlords, and old homeowners use to extract ungodly amounts of wealth from the younger and working class. If we abolished those laws, built more housing, and solved the housing crisis, we wouldn't be feeling nearly so much like peasants, working paycheck to paycheck and under mountains of debt.

If there's no housing scarcity, your landlord can't extract nigh-unlimited amounts of money from you.

Basically true, but consider the alternative. Given how expensive things are now, if you don't live a very minimal lifestyle you are going to be much more trapped in your career than someone who does. You won't be able to retire early, you won't be able to switch to something lower paid but more enjoyable/laid back, you won't have the means to take some time off to pursue your own business ideas or just dealing with life stuff.

If you're dead set on living the "American Dream" or something and refuse to hold back on treating yourself with luxuries, you are going to end up being even more of a tool of your technofeudalist masters. Acknowledging that doesn't mean turning a blind eye to what is happening, it's just basic self preservation of your freedom.

The thing is, the need for large expansive homes have substantially evaporated in younger generations as technology advances.

The desire for a massive home as a well off (not wealthy, but above peasant) person was due to:

1. Needing somewhere to store all your necessary shit, your tools of your trade, etc etc.

2. Needing somewhere for your servant(s) to live, because they took care of the house for you

3. Somewhere to store all your books and other pleasantries

However, our servants are now tiny little robots that dont need to eat or sleep, they dont need an entire bedroom and seat at the table.

The entire knowledge of all of humanity no longer requires a library of alexandria, but instead can fit in your pocket.

Many folks have all the tools of their trade able to fit in a small laptop bag at most.

When you can largely fit all your requirements of modern life in a single cardboard box, as opposed to needing several rooms, the desire for a mansion dwindles. Entire kitchens have been replaced with a single microwave and a hotplate.

Meals that used to take an entire day and a whole kitchen staff to prepare, now take a single person hitting an on button.

We have VR, laptops, netflix, the entire internet, etc etc all at our fingertips.

And most importantly, we have cars and whatnot. A trip to the store is no longer a "wake up at 6 in the morning to get the horses saddled and hitched, then three hour ride into town, get back home just before sunset" affair.

It's now "hop in the car and drive over to the store in 10 minutes"

And unlike horses, a car doesnt need a whole ass stable and stablehand. It can just... sit there lol

So yeah, its perfectly reasonable for us to slowly revert back to small life, everything we could possibly need to live life can fit in an extremely small square footage now, theres literally no need to have a giant mansion, it's largely pointless.

Serfs had The Commons. We don’t even have that

If you call it “oat milk”, you can sell gruel at a steep markup.

Capitalism is just an extension of feudalism already. There was no transition

I won't stand for slandering overnight oats like that!

edit: how tf did I mess up my comment so badly.

Technofeudalism is just endgame capitalism

But I like tiny homes...

There's no point renaming capitalism

Pluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?" (28 Sep 2023)