@lewiscowles1986@phpc.social @aredridel No one here will argue that the system isn't fundamentally broken. "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism," and all that.
But if you're going to target a single person doing the best they can, doesn't have any control of the system, and isn't exploiting the labor of others? First: abandon society and go live in the woods yourself before casting such stones, you are exactly the same problem. Second: save your stones for people who are actually problems.
This reminds of a statement I saw awhile back.
"You can't be trusted to eat the rich, because what will happen is you'll eat a bunch of doctors and lawyers [including, e.g., public defenders] while the actual rich laugh"
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@hrefna @Azuaron @lewiscowles1986 @aredridel If the poor had any idea how much the rich had...
When a rich person buys an asset without a loan they are just rearranging their balance sheet, not juggling their lifestyle. And yet that rearrangement winds up with them having the rents they can charge for the use of that asset.
For me that's the line: do you get to rearrange your balance sheet to extract rents at no cost or risk to your ability to have all your needs met.