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(DIR) Post #AY1vgQxwr5t0fibAiu by Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T19:20:13Z
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Honestly, I respect leeches more than landlords. Leeches have an important role to play in their ecosystem. Landlords...
(DIR) Post #AY1vgReqHcCIokfQa8 by TAI@mstdn.social
2023-07-24T19:25:53Z
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@Radical_EgoCom actually, fair and decent landlords play an important role in todays landscape. Many people don't keep the same job for a lifetime, many are transient. To purchase a home and sell every 5 years (average turnover) would incur incredible losses. Then there is the scenario where they should be viewed as home management, too many people dont want the aggravation of upkeep and repairs. The real problems lies like with anything else, when it is taken over by greed mongers
(DIR) Post #AY1vgSn24eLKKRVTzE by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2023-07-24T20:04:59Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom Typically the landlord does none of that though; they have staff or temp workers who are actually doing the necessary work. The landlord is, by definition, just the person who gets paid for having their name on the right piece of paper.If the landlord is ALSO a plumber or electrician or contractor then yeah, they might perform a valuable service in that role. But in the role of landlord they provide no service; they merely dictate what services can be provided by others. They get paid not to provide options but to limit them.
(DIR) Post #AY42rnBjf48Um3KY9w by JizzelEtBass@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T19:23:00Z
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@Radical_EgoCom This is a gross insult to leeches!
(DIR) Post #AY42sDRE45yYBcmHui by queue@todon.eu
2023-07-24T19:28:33Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom Oh shit you're serious let me laugh even harder
(DIR) Post #AY430wKX2d4djWo55c by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T19:53:16Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom that is a useful function that they serve, yes, because it would be an unreadable burden to have to buy a house every five years. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that overall they aren't fucking horrible, basically make money by acting as gatekeepers to essential and fundamentally limited resources in the market instead of producing anything useful, or that landlordship is isn't an awful power dynamic. I mean, even regarding your example, they have basically no incentive or accountability to actually do the home management things you say they should do, because instead of being hired by the person whose home it is, they *own that person's home*. Imagine if your mechanic owned your car instead of you, under the justification that it makes it easier for him to do maintenance! He'd never actually do his job because he'd have something *you* desperately need and pay for, so he'd have power over you, instead of being voluntarily asked to help you with something that's yours.We should instead find a different way to do the one tiny good thing landlords do. Under a system where those who use, occupy, or maintain things are the ones with a claim to them, so that you can't have power over others by owning something they need and you don't.As a brief sketch of an alternative: instead of letting people own homes they don't even live in — other people's homes! — and own an unlimited number of them, why not just let homes be "owned" by the people who live in them, not officially in some rigid legal contract that would have to change whenever someone joins or leaves, but just by virtue of all being in the same place and relying on the same material things, and social norms of collective ownership and decisionmaking? That way, all the people who live somewhere have a voice in what happens and who gets to stay there and all need to take part in maintenance and upkeep in some way? Then let people fluidly and dynamically join and leave these housing groups and collectively owned apartments. While they're there, they share in the maintenance and payments, and when they leave, there are no further obligations? This solves the problem of maintaining housing that people can freely join, use, and leave, by having a stable core group of people run the housing and let other people come and go. The only reason we can't do something like that now is because A) landlords have a monopoly on land pretty much and B) our legal system makes such fluid arrangements, which meet the needs of the individuals involved, basically impossible. They tend to call this sort of "housing is owned by whoever is living there and that's not an official thing, it just is, and changes over time, and once you leave you don't have a say" arrangement — squatting.
(DIR) Post #AY430xHjUWQeh8VMMi by anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T20:11:24Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom like for real, if you actually think about it for a split second you'll realize that the only reason landlords need to exist is because of the way our system of property rights is. It won't recognize the rights of people who just own, use, occupy, or maintain things, but needs an officially registered, explicit list of who owns a piece of property that's difficult and costly to change and requires explicit contracts, sales, and titles from some other previous owner, doesn't let property just be abandoned, won't recognize the legitimacy of people occupying or using abandoned property unless they can get the previous owner to officially sell it to them, and enforces hierarchical decisionmaking about common property based on those legal contracts. All of these intersecting hurdles are what makes it easier to have one wealthy person that owns a bunch of homes officially according to the state, so they can get all those titles and sales and don't have to worry about chanting occupancy, and then can temporarily let you live in one according to a contract, then it is to actually do anything better. And because only people with the wealth to get explicit legal title to things can "own" them, and the state enforces their rigid ownership, it automatically creates hierarchical relations that didn't need to be there.
(DIR) Post #AY43821GHt6FPBAu8m by Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T19:27:05Z
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@JizzelEtBass I know. I agree with the message, but leeches are great!
(DIR) Post #AY4382ebvaZjNDaKTQ by JizzelEtBass@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T19:27:44Z
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@Radical_EgoCom Support your local leeches by wading through the local lake or pond!
(DIR) Post #AY438qq1LRPZ15J9CS by crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me
2023-07-24T20:46:24Z
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@admin @TAI i have only had one landlord who did regular yard work and small repairs.
(DIR) Post #AY43AxUbZf7QEbIOVU by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T21:34:10Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom "The real problems lies like with anything else, when it is taken over by greed mongers"But that is just capitalism at work, greed is its stated goal and how it operates, that is not even contested by the pro-capitalism crowd.For as long as land is a market commodity to be employed in the interest of capital accumulation, thats exactly whats going to happen and what is meant to happen.This "we just need for the good people to own the land" is just essentialist pseudo-christian bullshit.
(DIR) Post #AY43ECRiQzEpTqUQPQ by TAI@mstdn.social
2023-07-24T21:57:52Z
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@Dragoniff @Radical_EgoCom nah, thats a perversion of capitalism. We've yet to experience honest capitalism.bullshit is offering no alternative, the whining for something to just be given, the assumption everyone deserves the same regardless how little they contribute reeks of bullshit.
(DIR) Post #AY43EDBRgxollfswgi by CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social
2023-07-25T00:06:15Z
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@TAI @Dragoniff @Radical_EgoCom Ah yes, the "useless eaters" defense of capitalism. 👀 Let's think, where have we seen this before? 🤔Every human life deserves dignity and respect, not just those you think are useful or "contributing".
(DIR) Post #AY43FRcLVqUep73VAW by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T22:00:42Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom We do have an alternative brother. Its called a popular revolution and the seizure of the means of production by the people for the employement in the interest of the people.
(DIR) Post #AY43G5ODdmxcAskmhc by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T22:03:27Z
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@TAI @Radical_EgoCom ItS NoT rEaL CaPiTaLiSm.Shit, and then these types of fuckers go around talking shit about tankies. smh my head.
(DIR) Post #AY43Kq4E2LFe6IfTzk by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2023-07-24T22:44:45Z
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@TAI @Dragoniff @Radical_EgoCom we've never seen pure or "honest" socialism or facism or democracy or...anything. Pure *isms only exist in textbooks and fairy tales. Time to wake up and smell the bull shit that's pouring out of that golden idol on Wall St.Outside of theory there is no way for capitalism to exist without being an aristocracy. In the theories nobody ever seems to have parents or children and the world has no history.
(DIR) Post #AY43M5TkDqPsBkCRxg by MattMerk@mastodon.social
2023-07-24T22:52:32Z
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@TAI @Dragoniff @Radical_EgoCom LOL! No, that’s just capitalism. “Honest capitalism,” is a PR term to launder the scam capitalism has always been. Not only should you be mocked forever for this attempt to anoint yourself Captain Free Market! You’re defending a system that is more and more obviously a failed experiment. But type louder you hero, you lover of parasites on society. 😂
(DIR) Post #AY43ShUzmF21qLwEpk by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
2023-07-25T00:10:09Z
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@TAI @Dragoniff @Radical_EgoCom Every last form of capitalism that doesn't involve a hard cap on the amount of capital you can have has failed. Stop simping for a broken-by-design system.
(DIR) Post #AY43UQVjuQCjje6qLg by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-25T00:13:04Z
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@CorvidCrone @TAI @Radical_EgoCom Not to mention: contribution exactly to what? Arguably the highest form of human expression is art, and every artist I know personally is not far off from starvation, so is certainly not that.Only makes you wonder...
(DIR) Post #AY43UZfdqyTO8xoNX6 by SocialistStan@mymastadon.link
2023-07-24T23:53:22Z
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@TAI @Dragoniff @Radical_EgoCom "the assumption everyone deserves the same regardless how little they contribute" <---- this exactly is why capitalism has to be reined in at minimum and destroyed preferably. It's a system that only values human beings for their labor and as a resource, we value human beings for being human beings.
(DIR) Post #AY43Wu0XDCkPnSh65g by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T22:48:00Z
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@admin @TAI @Radical_EgoCom yeah, It's almost like we need a political philosophy derived from actual things that are materially observed to be happening in real life.A materialism of sorts.Even better if it could be historical too...
(DIR) Post #AY43jbcgsPtGXhbBKK by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T23:57:53Z
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@SocialistStan @TAI @Radical_EgoCom Also I love how anti-poor the logic is. Because when we talk about "the people who contribute nothing" we never seem to mention the millonaires and billonaires that live off of being born with the right last names...
(DIR) Post #AY43k7y4cS0arHqi6C by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-25T00:14:44Z
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@ellenor2000 @TAI @Radical_EgoCom Capitalism has failed,Capitalism fails,and Capitalism will continue to fail.
(DIR) Post #AY43kTtv4Zl2sm4hg8 by MarvinTheMartian@noc.social
2023-07-24T22:14:04Z
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@Dragoniff @TAI @Radical_EgoCom sure. Civil war always fixes things 🤣
(DIR) Post #AY43kUXGiHEWqoU80m by Dragoniff@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T22:15:06Z
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@MarvinTheMartian @TAI @Radical_EgoCom Solved slavery.
(DIR) Post #AY43mChtyCiq8UH7Im by Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
2023-07-24T22:17:00Z
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@MarvinTheMartian @Dragoniff @TAI You're acting as if civil war has never solved anything in the past. Did civil war not abolish African slavery in the 1860s? Did civil war not liberate the French people from feudalism during the French revolution? There are many other examples of civil war being a benefit to oppressed people, but I think I've made my point.