What is a 15-minute City?
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I figured was bad, but after watching a few videos on it, this sounds horrible. It sounds like straight up communism with a healthy dose of feudalism. It's basically modern serfdom or modern wage slavery.
I love the "own nothing" part. Someone has to own property. Otherwise there would be no economic incentive to offer "subscriptions" and hire workers for delivery, property upkeep, washing, etc. Does anyone think the "owner" class will live in small pods and eat bugs?
This setup would be Wal Mart's wet dream. Take clothes. Instead of them just profiting once off the sale of a pair of pants they could "rent" said items and keep charging you for their usage. Instead of you having pants with holes, faded, etc they would tell you the pants are "unacceptable" and force you to keep renting newer pants or have to "upgrade" to more expensive new style pants. They could charge you whatever the hell they wanted since you can't own a damn thing they could literally bilk you over the clothes you are wearing. Now multiply that times every household or personal commodity you use on a daily basis. I could very easily see large corporations engaging in widespread usury and there wouldn't be damn thing you could do about it.
This almost reminds me of back in the day in the south. Where blacks were forced to shop at stores owned by racist assholes who charged them more and allowed them to but on credit at high interest rates. Of course they had no choice since they didn't have any mobility or political power. Sound familiar?
Yes, this is the "company city" complete with the "company housing" and "company store" but on a national/global scale. No money exchanged because the payment was slave labor disguised as credit/rent. No escape because accruing assets was impossible.
This is why the DS needs to eliminate private property rights.
"I owe my soul to the company store."
Still true!