Renters economy and the gig workplace

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Saw this post on the anti work reddit and had to share.

you're looking at eventually a renters economy. renting and loans is how the economy would run



you will not own a house you will rent an apartment. you will not own your car you will be paying it off or leasing it from a company

you will not own your cell phone because they are so expensive you have to have a payment plan

you will not even have a job

it will be an entire gig economy wherever employee at every job is listed as a private contractor even though the responsibilities would be the same.

doctors. lawyers. drivers. chefs. it will all run on an Uber business model where all of the costs of running the business are offloaded onto the worker (instead of a cab company that buys the cars pays the insurance and maintains the cars and pays for gas all of those things are on you)

meanwhile nobody will have set hours they will all be competing with each other and there will be no benefits or overtime or anything. just a complete gig economy for every profession

you already don't own movies or music anymore. u pay per month to have access

it's really not wrong. they want you to own nothing and be happy

and if you complain about any of it I'll call you lazy and entitled for not worshiping at the boots of the rich.

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Is capitalism trying to take away all our possessions? That would be ironic after the basis of refusing socialism being the endless warnings by die hard capitalists that communism was trying to do just that.
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Ah yes, brainwashed poor people mindlessly rejecting communism in place of capitalism just because it is America... That is almost slavery.
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Exploitation is exploitation and that one's own experience with exploitation may be milder than some theoretical past society would have provided you is cold comfort to the exploited and a less than stellar defense of the exploiter.

Clearly being punched is preferable to being shot and just as clearly not being shot doesn't really make up for being punched.
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Yes, Rich people buy airplanes, houses, cars and guns. Poor people buy food and cheap clothes from China.
Capitalism wants all poor people to die.
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@FLRW
This is incorrect. Capitalism wants poor people to live... in abject poverty toiling their entire lives away generating profits for the already insanely wealthy. 

In it's own way that seems much worse.
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    Touche'
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Capitalism is inherently self destructive if not regulated. Every company wants to lower wages while increasing costs, and when you make it impossible to afford to buy houses or diamond rings, instead of admitting a systematic flaw, they'll say Millennials/Gen Z 'killed' their business'.

Landlords are leeches. Neo-liberalism is delusion.
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It does seem odd that society as a whole took the hoarding of bottled water and toilet paper during  the pandemic by the lower classes as a selfish act but considers the hoarding of shelter as a mark of sstatus. Arguably if you have a house you are not using you have a house you do not need and arguably if you have a house you do not need while other members of your own society remain homeless you are a monster. Inarguably you are a measurable determinant to the public good.