no, and they’re eager to, but I think if they ever tried to not, things would go badly. that’s bad for the market and drives down everyone elses profits. there would be a lot of solidarity against them by the class of people that own the police.
Comment on Council housing when?
Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
No one is forcing you to raise your prices you cunt.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Everyone elses profits” means other landlords and property owners, not people who plan on living in their home.
Why does being a landlord need to be profitable? Why does bring privlaged enough to own a human right come with the right to free money?
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
because capitalism needs to function like cancer. shit’s built on old imperialist logics, where you must always be claiming more. red queen’s race bullshit. or cancer; pick your metaphor.
it must be profitable because while productivity increases, due to imperial conquest and advancing technology, the profits of the owning classes (remember; this is the literal definition of capitalism-value being produced by owners rather than workers. yes it’s insane, they are insane, this system is insane.) must also increase.
the fact the working class have no more to squeeze from just means we get closer and closer to slaves, which is maybe intentional, maybe just a cool bonus for them.
there’s a cool poem that explains it. check out part 2 poets.org/poem/howl-parts-i-ii
commander@lemmings.world 6 months ago
Not necessarily true. There are powerful cultural forces at play that they’re not willing to acknowledge, yet alone overcome.
We’re kind of in the same boat. We think that if we have more, then we deserve more before those who have less. That’s just what these people are doing, only they’re doing it way better than us.