You could in fact make an argument that the fact that most stockholders, numerically speaking, are people like me who don't even know what we're invested in makes us collectively morally worse than actual petit bourgeoisie who actually personally own a restaurant or whatever
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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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