Honest question, is it not fair to view UBI and student stipends as mechanisms to empower workers enough to enable revolution? Obviously it’s bad when people’s imagination ends there but they seem like decent tools to facilitate worker organization
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Replying to @BobAvakian @AlexNGordon
it’s an untenable way to temporarily stave off capitalist crises and in a free market system prices can simply be adjusted accordingly to keep you starving
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Replying to @turing_police @AlexNGordon
In other words if you get $200 in UBI expect your rent to increase by exactly that amount haha
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Replying to @turing_police @AlexNGordon
always remember that the ideal price for landlords is to keep all their tenants barely above water This is why I can't get too fired up about Fight for 15 when rent control barely gets news
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it's amazing how ok capitalists are with a class of predatory vultures whose best option is to charge as much of their tenants' income as they possibly can sustain. you'd think even a slightly wonky capitalist would be concerned about what this does to consumer spending
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good thing landlords compete with each other
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like fucking Hayek, who, fuck that guy, thought housing should be guaranteed by the state
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Replying to @wolicyponk @eigenrobot and
and re: competition, i know you're joking but already in cities you usually have a few giant developer companies owning a huge amount of real estate and the sad part is they're the ones which are generally easier to deal with
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Replying to @wolicyponk @eigenrobot and
the small landlords typically have the Small Business Owner mindset where they become petty tyrants and are probably more prone to abusive and predatory behavior
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i unironically love my slumlord
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dude was onsite 30m after I let him know my breaker was out, charged headfirst into a smoke-filled apartment with me to put out a ceiling fire, and yelled at an electrical company to get a guy out there that evening, and got me whiskey and he charges me rent at 2/3 market
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that was like the guy i had in DC, it was just a guy and his wife renting out their old house after they moved to the suburbs. replaced my washer/dryer at no charge after i stupidly broke it and charged $900 in fucking Capitol Hill like five blocks from the Supreme Court
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