cmn159:treepelt:queeranarchism: bpd-disaster: queeranarchism:bpd-disaster:queeranarchism:alyes
cmn159:treepelt:queeranarchism: bpd-disaster: queeranarchism: bpd-disaster: queeranarchism: alyesque: Capitalism is getting very much more dystopian very quickly It’s a matter of time before companies start their own Pod-communities and ‘strongly encourage’ workers to live there and set up rules like no alcohol and no defamation of the company in the Pods. As nightmarish as this is (and it is), this is only new for documented white people. From seasonal archiculture workers to construction workers to sweatshops, ‘sleep where you work and live your whole life controlled by your boss and coworkers pressured to spy on you’, has been very much a thing for a looooooooong time. This is one of many things capitalism has always done to workers and now they’re going “hhmmmm.. if I can do this to some workers, why not all of them? if I present it as a hip new way of urban living people for the ‘freelancers’ that I exploit, I might even be able to do it without the armed guards that run my sweatshops and plantations.” I don’t really get the issue with the “sex is banned” part tho I don’t want to hyperfocus on that part because ‘live without privacy, convert your bed into a desk by day and just work work work’ is distopian enough as it is and I don’t really want to distract from a conversation about the new fuedalism to just talk about sex. But can you not understand how that monotomous soulless life defined by work becomes even more soulless when you are not permitted to engage in (what is for most allosexuals) one of the most intimate moments of recreational joy and interpersonal connection? & how much it says about our lack of power when we live in places that control our sexual and reproductive lives? well yeah, but it’s communal living. I mean you’re spot on with the rest but idk, a ban on sex when you share your living quarters with like two dozen other people? it doesn’t seem that deep tbh. You know, I’ve spend time in socialist and anarchist self-organized communal living spaces where lots of people shared bedrooms because they liked it and all these spaces had a place for sex. They all acknowledged that that was a thing many humans loved and valued and so they organized to make that good thing possible. Some had a spare room with a lock on the inside that couples could use, others had dorms where sex was okay and dorms where it was not so people could choose where to sleep. It is not difficult to have communal living for those that like sharing bedrooms and also organize a place for sex. This, however, is not communal living. This is crammed, dehumanized corporate living. This is squeezing as many people as possible into a space defined by work. The inhabitants own nothing in this space and have no control over their environment, they can’t even paint the walls let along organize the space to meet their needs. In such a space, sex is made impossible on purpose:“We built the pods facing each other so the community polices itself”The people that made this could have organized privacy and opportunities for sex. They deliberately did not do this, they dilerabetely designed the space for minimum privacy. The purposeful banning of sex from this space is just one part, but one very obvious part, of the way these spaces are not build for humans, they are build for employees whose whole identity should be limited to their productivity. I try not to toot the “sex is a human need” horn too loud cause I know that’s not always the case but for people who do experience sexual attraction, it is a need, in the way that mental health days and social interaction and small luxuries are a need, because we’re complex creatures that need to do simple things to self-regulate and make us feel good about our lives and ourselves.Heavily restricting sexual behavior is literally a cult symptom, and the reason this specific phenomenon is indicative of unhealthy environments is because it’s always coming with a whole host of other privacy invasions and cultivating a tattletail culture. Cult leaders already know that taking this thing that should be so personal and freeing for someone makes it easier to control them. It’s listed in the BITE model. It’s a staple in hyper-religious movements and the puritanical mindset of the western world as a whole. It’s not about decency in group living. It’s about freedom. This is only accepted because these people who are being introduced to these spaces are already used to sex being considered dirty, private contraband. You should get to dictate what you do in your own living space. Corporations are desperate to do whatever it takes to mind control their workers into exploiting them for as much profit as possible and this is the next step. on this being “new feudalism” is even more terrifying because it isn’t like feudalism at all.Feudalism was personal. You were a serf to a lord because your ancestor pledged your loyalty to them. This is capitalism in its purest form. When America reached Late-stage Capitalism, company towns were very popular even for whites. THIS IS NOT NEW!! Capitalism has been doing this since the 1920s, America got rid of them for native citizens, so we didn’t care much that they were kept for immigrants and seasonal workers. Now company towns are coming back for all workers, but it isn’t feudalism. These towns are for power and money, not old personal ties that a value system keeps people from breaking law. In someways, it’s worse. -- source link