the costs of maintenance + utilities in their own right, but also the costs of providing for the maintainers + utility workers--what I'm getting at is that no matter how utopian the society, people in it will need to work and pay for their housing
Yes--but it's much easier to call out the scarcity manufactured by hoarders and monopolists than that manufactured by incompetence, short sightedness, negligence, etc
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Sure! But those are all problems we should delight in tackling. They are things imminently measurable and configurable. I simply am of the belief that because people want to uphold this status quo, we’re not doing the work as a society.
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An alcoholic who keeps spending any possible income on more beer both wants and doesn't want to uphold the status quo--and in either case the brewer is hardly to blame
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I just don’t believe that’s the issue here. The monopolists and hoarders are the ones in charge of production and distribution and they don’t want change. Further, there are many subject to Engles’ false consciousness who fight to maintain a bizarre sort of “fairness” here.
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That might not be clear. What I mean is there are people who believe that 1) they have what they do because of their own “hard work” and 2) that “hard work” is uniformly rewarded with the success it deserves. They end up arguing in support of keeping hoarders/monopolists in power
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