weev on Nostr: exploitation is a natural consequence. Some people will simply insist on being ...

exploitation is a natural consequence. Some people will simply insist on being exploitative towards the weak, it has nothing to do with “systemic incentives”. In the 17th century, Cossack hero Bohdan Khmelnytsky lead an uprising and established the Cossack Hetmanate. His primary call was to purge and capture “abusive landlords and administrators”. This lead to a massacre, mysteriously, of nearly only Jews and Jesuits.

Interestingly enough, before Adolf Hitler, Bohdan was the considered biggest adversary of Judaism and Jews around the world had a day which they would curse him in their appeals to whatever it is they worship. Perhaps looking at the last names of landlords in New York with the most complaints might indicate that this is not a problem that is about “systemic incentives” unless the system is that of the doctrines and jurisprudence of the specifically abusive religions. From the Khmelnytsky Uprising to present-day Manhattan, it always seems to be a very small subset of the population which are engaged in the actual exploitation of tenants.