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Sep 17, 2026
Beatrice Adler-BoltonHOST
They have no right to stand between us and the things that we all need to live our lives.
Beatrice Adler-BoltonHOST
And again, though, when we look to a system like the NHS, we see why we have to go beyond decommodification and the abolition of parasitic leeches like private insurance companies.
Beatrice Adler-BoltonHOST
Decommodification does not address the weaponization of access that we see there or the way that safety is wielded as a weapon.
Beatrice Adler-BoltonHOST
Switching up the financing of care is not an instant fix for rationing scarcity or the ways that states can use paternalism dressed in scientific professional standards to justify blocking or eliminating care.
Beatrice Adler-BoltonHOST
So this is why we have to decommodify the material means of care and contest the enclosure of care by professional and state authority.
DanielHOST
Thank you.
DanielHOST
Um, there's other things that are coming up that we would normally talk about, but we're not, but in the spirit of, uh, Decommodification of one of the Burning Man principles.
DanielHOST
We're just going to hold off on that until next week.
DanielHOST
So again, thank you everyone for following our adventures.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, and it was about essentially, um, you know, entrenched commodification.
Billy FlemingGUEST
In Europe, those same kind of streams of public revenue were largely used to decommodify, um, goods that were deemed essential to kind of human life, which included housing and, you know, electricity and different forms of utilities and space and so on.
Billy FlemingGUEST
And it's partly why-- Well, it's not partly why.
Billy FlemingGUEST
It is precisely why you see so much more or so many more forms of collective housing ownership, whether it's social housing, um, in the case of Vienna, where, you know, you're doing kind of a mixed market sort of approach to the way that ownership is treated there or re- or tenancy is treated.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, and it was about essentially, um, you know, entrenched commodification.
Billy FlemingGUEST
In Europe, those same kind of streams of public revenue were largely used to decommodify, um, goods that were deemed essential to kind of human life, which included housing and, you know, electricity and different forms of utilities and space and so on.
Billy FlemingGUEST
And it's partly why-- well, it's not partly why, it is precisely why you see so much more or so many more forms of collective housing ownership, whether it's social housing, um, in the case of Vienna, where, you know, you're doing kind of a mixed market sort of approach to the way that ownership is treated there or re- or tenancy is treated.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, if you're looking at a place like Bordeaux, which you know, is probably a bit more similar to the way, um, public housing works in the US than it is to, um, social housing in Vienna and kind of so on down the line.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, and it was about essentially, um, you know, entrenched commodification.
Billy FlemingGUEST
In Europe, those same kind of streams of public revenue were largely used to decommodify, um, goods that were deemed essential to kind of human life, which included housing and, you know, electricity and different forms of utilities and space and so on.
Billy FlemingGUEST
And it's partly why-- well, it's not partly why, it is precisely why you see so much more or so many more forms of collective housing ownership, whether it's social housing, um, in the case of Vienna, where, you know, you're doing kind of a mixed market sort of approach to the way that ownership is treated there or re- or tenancy is treated.
Billy FlemingGUEST
Um, you're looking at a place like Bordeaux, which you know, is probably a bit more similar to the way, um, public housing works in the US than it is to, um, social housing in Vienna, and kind of so on down the line.