and get nuked by the many countries that hate us? No thanks

I’m getting real “not all cops are bad people” vibes in this thread. Y’all love to personalize systemic issues. The system influences the individual. It is not imposed by one individual. It is a collection of attitudes and people who want to maintain their dominance without putting the effort in that decide how others live, literally.

it doesn't matter if they are the common man or not. being a landlord relies on you exploiting the needs of others

thats not how things work lmao

In theory I don't think free rent in and of itself would harm the economy if it existed in a bubble, but if we lived in a world where everyone was relegated to free housing and didn't have potential for upward mobility by earning more I think we'd begin to see a lack of innovation and a lot of complacency

Yes... we are going to get nuked by countries because we don’t dump 70% of our national budget into military expenses

Why hasn’t that already happened then? And maybe you should consider why these countries feel the way they do if you’re so convinced that would be what would happen

american military literally protects a number of other countries apart from themselves

Can't cut the military down when we are in direct competition with dangerous countries like China and Russia.

s*** take. by this logic restaurant owners, farmers, and grocers are exploiting people too.

Because just like us, they are immensely greedy and want to have the most power and money in the world and we are in the way.

farmers, no. the people who sell their food, yes.

restaurant owners, yes. grocers? yeah the owners of the store yes, the people working the cashier, no.

threads like these make me so glad that society will collapse in a major way before 2100
humans was a mistake

It's a democracy, everyone owns the land through the council.

Lmfaoo as if capitalism isn’t the epitome of lack of innovation. Capitalism is taking a good idea and mass producing it for extremely cheap by minimizing the quality and overpricing the f*** out of it. No innovation there. Look at every genre of music before it became mainstream. Tell me that there’s innovation as soon as executives get involved.

This argument that innovation is a byproduct of capitalism is a f***ing s*** narrative. I bet more people would be innovative if they had the time to be rather than working 40 hours a week to barely make rent

we absolutely can. military is very important and being the best or close to the best at it is extremely valuable but we undeniably spend too much. we can make significant cuts and still maintain our position. look into the f-35 project for example. we literally wasted trillions on jets that don't work.

If that’s the case, they would have bombed us forever ago. We influence the world more than others. We are the ones going into nations and doing the “bombing.” We are the global terrorists in most other nations eyes. If you’re concerned about that, then dumping more money into that isn’t really going to solve that fear now is it

They wouldn't bomb us because our military is still far stronger than theirs, a direct result of our spending.

And we are the global terrorists because other nations use propaganda to drive fear into their people to think we are the enemy like those nations wouldn't kill the majority of their population to be in our position

People are imperfect

Sometimes to be the best you have to take risks and invest in things that may or may not pan out

OP can you abolish landlords in a capitalist society?

technically yes. but that wont happen

Like things besides military?

I mean it gets obvious when defense contractors are picking and choosing who they want to be in office

ok and?

How?

Interacting and dealing with landlords has been the worst part of my experience in US

Dumb argument

The innovation that first came up is because of capitalism. People want to get rich and that motivates them to be creative and do something new.

Mass production and commercialization does reduce quality but it also provides wider access to something you otherwise wouldn’t get.

In any other system, we wouldn’t get that creativity and most creatives wouldn’t feel encouraged to try for such low reward