I don't own all the land in the village also I use mods to make most of the villages totally gigantic to the point where it feels more believable the villagers have their own economy. Also there are a mix of player-shaped presumably homo sapiens villagers and the homo Squidward villagers so there's not a weird racial undercurrent to the worldbuilding and the environmental structures tend to dwarf a single player's survival constructions, simulating the feeling of civilization. I also play awesome techno instead of the stupid sad Minecraft soundtrack. Also I have a mod that gives me a rocketship. And windmills. And a gun.

Villagers aren’t slaves because Minecraft leashes don’t work on them.

I'm really glad to have read this sentence today.

minecraft is settler colonialist fantasy. a wide world, mostly empty, with the few people in it easily subjugated and exploited.

it also has the individualist brainworms. a single plucky individual building up an entire civilization single-handedly.

Me putting villagers into a boat and pulling the boat with a leash: "it's not slavery it's unpaid labor"

Saying that Minecraft villages are under the dictatorship of the golem is stupid. The Iron Golem and the villagers share the same class interests.

And the steve supposedly provides protection from zombies... who only spawn when the steve is there... hmmm

Now that Minecraft has received an update that allows leashing villagers together in train-like formations, how does this analysis change?