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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This format is shit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air - or of the money to buy it - even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it's right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: "It's Their Land," "It's Their Water," "It's Their Coal," "It's Their Iron," so you would say "It's Their Air," "These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?" And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on "Christian Duty" in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of the gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you'll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to "justice" in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.”

― Robert Tressell

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd much rather rent than own! It gives me a lot more freedom to move, i have less at risk and no stress that something might need fixing.

Stop being so obsessed about owning! In the end you won't take any of it to the grave anyway

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You leave your assets to your family. A house is extremely significant to their future after you die.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Have you ever tried it? It's more work than you think.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

But it's work that only exists because the landlord decided to extort money from their tenants. No one said the life of a parasite is always easy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

building manager is a job

a lot of people who say their job is "being a landlord" are that and a building manager

but it's probably useful to draw a distinction between that and people who actually have nothing to do with their properties because they outsource it all

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite part is how they ALL claim it's so much work and they don't make any money. Ok? If you don't profit why do you keep buying property and doing it? Because you DO profit you bunch of lying liars! lmaooooo

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