• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    The United States was dealt its final blow half a century ago at the hands of an Alzheimer’s patient by the name of Ronald Reagan.

    This is the necrotic stage.

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    A human is definitely generating more value than the parking space, it’s just most of it is being stolen by greedy capitalists.

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      In Soviet Russia, parking space never earn more than human.

      But mostly because the waiting list for a Lada was 10 years long.

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    They’re making us lose our reasons for living. Life’s too hard and not worth it at this stage. Feel bad for all the babies born everyday. The majority of them are going to have hard lives and grow up too hate every second of it most of the rest of the world.

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      Turn that sadness into anger, turn the anger in a deep, boiling rage. You know where to direct it, dismantle the whole system little by little. You know who are the guilty ones, we all do

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        oh, you don’t think that the capitalist don’t want that? who do you think is going to take power in a revolution?

        look back, it is always an authoritarian aristocracy.

        if you want to make the world better for the working class, we need to enact reforms, not revolutions.

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          However it is also openly obvious that reforms(at least in north america and europe) often result in backsliding. You also forget that while the revolutionary regimes often had issues with corruption and committing atrocities, they often were a million times better than the equally or moreso brutal regimes that came before them.

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            But they often also lead to backlash, such as the Reign of Terror leading to the Thermidorian Reaction and its successors; or the SovUnion being so unpopular amongst its vassal states that they eventually chose to just… quit cooperating, leading to major degradation of serious socialist movements worldwide and the initiation of the ugly pillaging that was so-called ‘shock therapy’ in the 90s.

            Being better than what came before it is not the same as making a better future.

            I get it. God, I get it. The guillotines are hungry, and I would love to see them fed. Saint-Just is my spirit animal. But I also realize that bloodletting, even when it is the most just result, is not always the most morally correct one. As satisfying as seeing guilty heads roll may be, I would rather see the lives of the innocent improved - in as sustainable a manner as possible. Sometimes that means violence. Sometimes it does not.

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            nah, the revolutionary nations were often WORSE than the people they replaced, and generally only were better for a certain amount of people.

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    But have you considered there is also less demand for you than a downtown Toronto parking space?? Ha! Check mate!

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      1. I dispute that, you haven’t seen me striptease yet

      2. More that it’s a matter of negotiation leverage. Rich folk find it hard to outwait other rich folk regarding property prices. Poor folk, though? We have a matter of days before we collapse because of our silly ‘human needs’ and such, which makes it imperative that we be kept desperate, lest our pay even vaguely reflect the amount of surplus value extracted from us.

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        So what I am hearing is, not only is that parking space a harder worker than you, that pulled itself up by the boot straps concrete slabs, it is also a more talented negotiator than you. Shame.

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      If you squat the parking space does that mean you can raise demand for yourself enough to receive higher compensation than the parking space alone?

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    I was looking at Toronto real estate just for the lulz the other day… 150k$ to buy a parking space… First thing I found surprising is that you can buy a parking space (wtf?) But even more surprising… They sell for more than I paid for my condo 10 minutes from downtown Ottawa 10 years ago 😐

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      If you could rent it out for the 27 an hour like they stated above you could start seeing a return in as little as 5 years. Sounds like a great investment.

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        It’s an amazing investment because it pays for itself AND its value will increase because managers are idiots and are bringing people back to the office.

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    This is the feudal stage of capitalism where the rich recaptured all the real estate and are making tons of profit just sitting on it.

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      Which is pretty interesting because the “God” of capitalism, Adam Smith, hated landlords.

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    Don’t open a business downtown unless you have a damn good reason for it. It’s a massive real estate monopoly.

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    Just looked at a studio apartment at my old complex. It’s $2,995 a month. About $100 a day, assuming a 30-day month. You need to pay hotel prices just to live in a studio apartment (with a lease) here.

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    Let me ask you all something: does an increase in demand for something raise the price for it, or decrease the price?