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  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYeee yee
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    8 months ago

    I feel like this is easy to answer and I’m not sure why the question comes up so often.

    People have jobs and get payed salaries to both build and maintain houses/apartments. Rent payments would go to pay the actual people that did the building / do the maintenance. Nobody makes profit off this. No landlord, no investor, no profit. The money goes to cover building costs, then maintenance. Easy peasy.

    We have things like this. People build and maintain our public roads, schools, water/sewer systems, fire departments, military, etc.

    No profits. No landlord gets free money for renting. No wallstreet investor gets free money for selling at high market values, etc.

    Obviously, decisions have to be made about supply/demand, areas where lots of people want to live and all that. So what? Let’s make those decisions intelligently instead of greed and profit driven.


  • Ok fair enough.

    My only last point would be that what if the socioeconomic changes we want could be resolved because of the technical/automation advancements? What if it’s the only way to get the change we want? I’d see great hardship as a transition most probably.

    I’m obviously just speculating here. I’m very very cynical about solving the socioeconomic issues first, I just don’t see it happening, enstead we just stay business as usual. At least with a huge shift in automation causing massive job loss there is the potential for a big revolutionary change. No guarantee obviously, it could also only make things worse. We really don’t know.


  • I dont have a solution, that’s why I’m cynical. It is perfectly OK to say “I don’t know”.

    That being said, you’re way of thinking is very myopic and only fits our current society standard / zeitgeist.

    Why do people need to do these menial jobs at all? You’re answer is probably that they won’t have money to pay for food, rent, etc. What if we had a society where people could pursue hobbies, interests, passions, etc, without fear of homelessness and starvation? Why can’t we reach for something much better than what we have now?

    Some people would exploit such a system and never contribute to society and just sit around playing video games all day? So what, who gives a shit?

    Just because this would be extremely difficult, and we have absolutely no idea how to do it, doesn’t mean we should just give up and not try. The current system sucks ass. People shouldn’t be wasting there time doing menial pointless labor to keep the wealthy rich, just to survive a pointless existence.