I feel individual landlords are more a vestigial form of feudalism rather than big companies taking over being a new form of techno-feudalism (a concept I don't know I necessarily agree with), I think it's more the way capitalism tends to monopolize and drive the petit bourgeois out and into the proletarian class with time.

Individual landlords are random, they could be benevolent and kind, but they are more often capricious, self-serving and generally Hitlerite. Large rental corporations are still bad, but they are often risk-adverse from a liability standpoint and have an economy of scale to allow them to manage problems. Costco is not going to sexually harass you or kill you in a fire because they did the wiring themselves.

Also bigger rental corporations could hypothetically be easier to reign in by the government (not that it will likely happen soon) or be expropriated more easily in any revolution (inshallah).

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

techno-feudalism (a concept I don't know I necessarily agree with).

Yeah that was definitely a very loose use of the term in my post in hindsight. Not a useful way to look at the thing, good call.

Also bigger rental corporations could hypothetically be easier to reign in by the government (not that it will likely happen soon) or be expropriated more easily in any revolution (inshallah).

VERY good point. Also the creation of the rent-seeking "middle class" via the spread of private renting is a useful tool to maintain class stratification. If the corporations take that away from the petite bourgeoisie a lot of people are going to find themselves in the working class. Might take a couple of generations, but yeah, interesting to think about.

I still can't shake the feeling that anything approaching critical support of this is in very close proximity to straight up accelerationism though. I guess that's why my brain spat out "techno-feudalism" in my post, on reflection.

Costco is not going to sexually harass you or kill you in a fire because they did the wiring themselves.

We'll see.