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This is actually an older news story, and it does appear as though she recovered from this before her death.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14389544
the system loves cruelty
criminalizing poverty and brutalizing criminals is what spins the wheels of capitalism
Our fault for not being born into rich families, I guess? :\
No, no, no; if you work really hard and really apply yourself, you too can become a titan of industry and make your billions of dollars. If you aren't at least a millionaire, it's because you are just too dumb and lazy to succeed. Go back to school, work longer hours, read more books, get better ideas. In the meantime, I'm hungry, flip my burger faster, and what do you mean you want more than $7.25/hour, it's not like this is a real job.
The biggest /s imaginable.
Look the law is the law and police have to enforce the law. Except for their friends and family or city officials. Or if they just don't feel like enforcing the law. But other than that the law is the law!
"But then people would just want to be old and disabled in order to not pay their rent."
She should've made more money and saved more when she was younger.
Best regards,
Capitalism
/s
Must have been an avocado toast addict.
No, she's from the generation that did buy diamonds, and this is how they treated her. She could've afforded rent if she hadn't wasted all her money on stupid shiny rocks. This is why we're smart for not doing that. /s
This is just how dismissive and callous it is when similar things are said about millennials and zoomers. I feel bad for her. I'd rather be dead than homeless after like 60 years old. At 93, she literally couldn't survive a week on the streets, and that suits the capitalists just fine since she's just a net negative number on their spreadsheet, and their entire goal is to maximize that number.
decommodify housing already. wtf is wrong with people.
...How does that work? Who pays for the lumber, cement, electrical, plumbing, etc?
The price to build a house is nothing compared to what it will sell for. The selling price is mostly speculation. Housing used to be something you just owned, like a car, we as a society decided it had to be an investment and everything has gone to hell since.
When you decommodify a thing the state takes a role to ensure the good or service is provided to all. You can have a mixed system with private and public construction. But as long as there is a robust public housing sector, prices for all houses will be much lower than in the current system where we have scarcity.
Ideally the governnent with our tax money instead of using it all to bomb nations that aren't a threat to us and lining the pockets of politicians and their friends.
America has great public housing, free meals and they even provide everyone with a job. I just don't understand why residents need to wear those funny orange suits.
But the poor landlords!
Sort of the joke in Western countries. We took all the absolutely critical domestic infrastructure that we all agree needs to be funded and we all rely on to exist and passed it off to the most greedy sociopath assholes we could find.
Now we're shocked to discover that our planes crash and our retirement homes price gouge and our tech companies just do fake money scams to the tune of $2.5 trillion dollars. Our local sports teams are all run by a big casino. Our universities are all run by sports team owners. Our domestic energy companies keep getting pranked by the fake money scammers, while complaining that environmentalists just made the price of natural gas go vertical. And our health care system is six hedge funds in a set of doctor's scrubs.
But when push comes to shove, if you ask an American why this country seems to be circling the drain, the answer is some combination of "Woke Communist Joe Biden put transgenders in charge of the military industrial complex" and "Cheeto Mussolini Donald Trump gave Putin/Xi the sticky note with all our passwords on it, right after Barack Obama had fixed everything."
You'd never even know Blackrock Financial, Goldman Sachs, Citadel Advisors, and Berkshire Hathaway exist, much less why they have more control over the global economy than any two dozen elected officials you could name.
Cruelty is the point. Keep people subservient, keep them worried for their own life and the lives of their loved ones.
You're less likely to complain about work requiring 20 hours of unpaid overtime if that means you can't put food on the table for your family.
Can’t you see how shareholders are suffering here? Have a heart!
ACAB
But shareholder value!
As conservatives applaud...
Conservatism is a fucking plague of oppression, misery and death that targets the most vulnerable first. It needs to be eradicated and innoculated against.
I'd argue that if you do that your not even a human being worthy of basic human rights. That landlord and those cops should just die lol
but Jebus or something is what they love down there in Florida!
That's so sad, i cannot imagine myself growing old in such a corrupted country.
Why is it assumed that the owner can afford to have her live rent free?
landlord
the kind of rich person that owns multiple houses
not a small business
Who the fuck cares? It indicates a massive flaw with the system. Either they can't afford it or we aren't doing anything to help it, or they're just exploiting her to gain more wealth. Whatever the reason is, it isn't a justification. It's only an indictment of the system that allows it to happen. The fact the police are used to support the little lordling and not the poor old woman just makes it worse.