Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, they put in a lot of money for these office buildings, and they’re sitting unused. They have leases they still have to pay.
Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, they put in a lot of money for these office buildings, and they’re sitting unused. They have leases they still have to pay.
Juice@midwest.social 1 day ago
Relevant screen name
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
And I take it you are OJ Simpson?
Juice@midwest.social 1 day ago
No but what if I did it?
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you think I’m arguing for them, I’m not.
Juice@midwest.social 1 day ago
Okay fair. But what is meant is that leases, debt, market forces are justifications for class domination.
Remember that all financial activity begins and ends with the banking system. New money is created by banks, it circulates throughout the economic system, and then returns to the banks in greater amounts via interest and exploitation. This all supports a system that ensures a wealthy few have domination over the precarious existence of poor and middle class workers.
Small capitalists are especially vulnerable to these pressures. When you own a business to take a lease on a building then the price they pay is determined by the market. But market prices are driven by political and private interests. The commercial real estate market has been described as a “zombie” for over a decade. Supply is tightly controlled so that owners can return a profit on their profit year over year. This has created unsustainable circumstances, a bubble that could pop if a movement came along to seize it.
Power over the workers is the only thing that the system offers small capitalists, who are as beholden to large capitalists as the rest of us. But for us we get mad at our boss or manager, who is more like an overseer of wage slaves than a plantation owner. Coming back to work means people have to go buy new business attire, we spend more on gas, we put more wear on our vehicles, we get less free time to improve our lives or sustain a work/life balance. And for what? People are more productive when we work from home, we make more money for our companies, we are happier and more effective. What does keeping us poor and stressed and tired do to sustain a rational system of labor, even exploited labor?
But the system isn’t rational. And if it isn’t just about profit and productivity than what is it about?
As leftists have been saying for at least two centuries, it is about the power of one class of owning capitalists over all others.
Its like saying that an automobile drives with its wheels. In a very minor way it is true, but it is a complex machine operated by many essential systems. When we look at the car its important to inspect where the rubber meets the road, and understand the component systems, but to understand it we need to look at how all the seemingly disparate systems operate together, as well as who is driving it and where they intend to go with it.
Return to work is a mandate that one billionth of the world’s population demands of .0075% of the worlds population, in order to control the remaining 99.9925%.