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Lanky_Pomegranate530 to [email protected] • 2 years ago

What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?

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What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?

Lanky_Pomegranate530 to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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  • LinkedinLenin [any, comrade/them]
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    40•2 years ago

    Someone paying $800 a month for their rent is gonna have paid $470,400 by the time they retire. That’s like two fucking mortgages for the “service” of not being homeless.

    It’s just restructured feudalism at this point. We’ve abstracted away the direct relationship between landlord and serf, but over half our labor is still going to some third party doing none of the work.

    • raven [he/him]
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      15•2 years ago

      If you like your feudal lord, you can keep them! pete

      • LinkedinLenin [any, comrade/them]
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        16•2 years ago

        If you don’t like your feudal lord, you also keep them! obama-spike

        • JuryNullification [he/him]
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          10•2 years ago

          The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most successful proletarian revolution resulting in almost perfect redistribution of land.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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            1•2 years ago

            Fun fact, the benefits persist to this day. Nearly 90% of people in China own their home http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-05/15/content_15295765.htm

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      11•2 years ago

      Feudal serfs got way more vacation days than us

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        6•2 years ago

        Those were not vacation days, just days where they could till their own fields instead of their lord’s. For most people life then was full of backbreaking labour, illiteracy, disease and the constant looming threat of starvation. There is no need to romanticise feudalism.

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