I’m glad someone brought the impact of the collapse of the USSR on the conditions of workers in the capitalist countries into this thread!

I was about to mention unions. If everyone feels the same way as OP and are looking for a solution, they should unite and form unions, as they have more power collectively than in an atomized state, and unions are really the only way to make any real gains for everyone.

Unions and the broader labor movement of the late 1800s to the mid 1900s is the only reason that we have the weekend, 40 hour work week, integrated jobs, minimum wage, social security, overtime, and all the other perks which we all take for granted.

You’re right, maybe I should’ve been less argumentative in my comment, my apologies about that.

You make a good point. I’ll cede my argument that every single landlord got the starting capital from the exploitation of others, because there are exceptions in every circumstance.

I do also think that there’s another elephant in the room which is that landlordism in general boils down to holding a basic need hostage and charging more than it’s worth to people who don’t have the entire value at once. In my eyes this is simply being a parasite, and I also get worked up about all of this, so I’m sorry if I came off as argumentative or hostile in my comment.

I would personally argue that any wealthy individual under capitalism is only able to be wealthy on the basis of exploitation. In my view labor creates value, so no matter how far you have to go back you will always find rampant exploitation of labor when you see a wealthy individual or family.

This is plain to see when you critically think about this idea of development of land into housing for landlords to rent out. The landlord (wealthy individual due to exploitation of labor) buys land, hires people to do labor on it (exploitation), which creates value that’s added to said land.

I would also disagree on the idea that landlords are in any way victims of this system, they are more like the benefactors of it, as the system as a whole is set up to benefit their class and is much easier on them. They pay less taxes in a lot of regions, they don’t have to sell their labor power to eat, they can always get favored treatment with banks and financial institutions, and, at least where I live, they can send lobbyists to local, state, and federal governing bodies to advocate for their interests with money (bribery).

Thank you!

Thank you. Aside from your point @ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk which I agree with, money isn’t what motivates me to do things, and I like to write and would like to share my thoughts, ideas, and analysis.

@Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml

Personally, I’d give out a proxy address.

XMRBazaar? Could you point me in the right direction of more info on this? I’m wholly intrigued.

But what about the poor executives?!?!

/s

I agree, especially if they were put under enough pressure, and were part of a movement without said commitment to non-violence

Exactly!

Article from 2015.

It will be interesting to watch if DPRK becomes the more prosperous nation long-term

Its been interesting to see the recent economic successes of the DPRK and to watch how even the capitalist media in the US is starting to concede to it. Now, whether that means that the US is going to try to get them to “open up” like China did is anyone’s guess.

EXACTLY

Israel has always been and will always be a means of destabilization of the region for the US. Yes, the US uses Israel as a launching pad and such, but mostly the US wants all of the nations in the middle east to be unstable at the least and failed states at the most so they can be more easily controlled and so the US can send in their corporations to extract the abundant resources which are under the ground that they stand on.

Right? this has been my concern all along but especially since trump started the war with Iran.