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queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoCooperatives are democratic, the members vote on what it means to have a nice living situation.
Comment on Fucking leeches
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoCooperatives are democratic, the members vote on what it means to have a nice living situation.
Akito@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If there are ten people with ten different expectations, they would all vode for something “in the middle”, which would make nobody happy. The best would be, if everyone could choose for themselves and that is the case right now, except many people perhaps cannot afford, what they’d wish for. Still, better than having a “democracy”, where nobody is truly happy.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The case right now is, if you can’t afford what you want, you can’t choose it. They don’t get to choose for themselves, the market chooses for them!
If I have to choose between market decision making and democratic decision making, I’ll choose democracy. At the very least, a democratic process leaves no one homeless.
Akito@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The market chooses without discrimination against anybody. Capitalism is inherently anti-racist, for example. If you do the work, you get paid. No questions asked.
In such a “democracy” it’s a different story. Because, for example, if you only have, let’s say, 30 tenants, every single tenant can move a lot. Now, it only takes a significant amount of these 30 tenants to group up as, for example, Trump lovers and there you have this “democracy” actively discriminating Biden lovers.
Whereas, if you meet a true capitalist, he does not care where you are from, what you do, how you look… As long as you pay, nothing else matters. Only your money matters.
That said, there is only a tiny fraction of people, who really cannot afford something. Most people are capable to achieve stages in life, where they become very well able to afford, what they want.
They thing about most people is that, if they cannot afford it, they don’t wanna afford it. For example, if you have no mental and physical disabilities and yet consciously decide to work as a lowly paid cashier for your whole life, then the market didn’t choose shit for you. You chose, presuming you are mentally and physically capable of choice, as the average person indeed is.