Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Property is only another name for monopoly.

the absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.

Every monopoly is unique, but they usually share some combination of the following characteristics: proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

" for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Land monopoly—in the hands of individuals, corporations or syndicates—is at bottom the prime cause of the inequalities which obtain; which desolate fertile acres turned over to vast ranches and into bonanza farms of a thousand acres, where not one family finds a habitation, where muscle and brain are supplanted by machinery, and the small farmer is swallowed up and turned into a tenant or slave. While in large cities thousands upon thousands of human beings are crowded into narrow quarters where vice festers, where crime flourishes undeterred, and where death is the most welcome of all visitors.

But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

Think back a minute to the definition of a rentier: someone who uses their control over something that already exists in order to increase their own wealth. The feudal lord of medieval times did that by building a tollgate along a road and making everybody who passed by pay. Today’s tech giants are doing basically the same thing, but transposed to the digital highway.