But that doesn't mean it *is* more exploitative Like I freely admit the way in which I'm a capitalist (having savings in a Vanguard IRA) is as hands off as possible because I don't like thinking about it or taking any active role in it, but that doesn't decrease my complicity
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Am I actually saying "Be nice to landlords so they'll have an incentive to be nice" Well, maybe I kind of am At the very least I'm saying there's a reason to make the distinction between better and worse landlords or bosses
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The counterargument is that by giving cookies to individual nice landlords you're enabling an overall exploitative system And I guess what I'm saying is... the system is fine with individuals becoming uncomfortable wielding that power, it's already evolved around that discomfort
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Like our society is already shot through with mechanisms of abstraction, if you want to make money from the fact that people pay rent without ever knowing the people or making any decisions it's really easy, and the shame-based discourse just guarantees that system will grow
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It's like the argument over small business I'm very well aware lots and lots of small businesses suck and are run by awful tinpot tyrants I still think it's worse for the country to have one giant faceless corporation be everyone's employer
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All savings are capital, but they're not all rentier income
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