Leave car keys by the front door to avoid home invasion, Toronto police officer says

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[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In some ways private property has an already been abolished, you might own a home, but you have to pay property taxes on it, so really you're just renting it from the state. This hasn't always been the case. Periodically some people, such as libertarians, talk about changing this. The rich want to make our lives just bad enough that we're not suicidal so we keep working but we're too busy working to survive to start a revolution. It's a delicate balancing act, it requires a lot of noble lies and propaganda and philosophies made up by academics to justify it.

[–]blackpilllife 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

. The business model of paying a land lord a certain bond payment before you can pay rent to live on a property is not that much different from having to pay property tax to legally own property. When politics create rules on what must be taxed they’re just making everyone’s lives harder by decreasing the income of most of the population while increasing they’re own income it’s all a rigged system where the rich rig the system to keep themselves in a rich and powerful position while the classes below the rich have to struggle to keep up with position they want to stay in if they want to be able to afford decent living conditions

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe if property taxes had an end point. But it's not like buying something by taking out a loan. It's rent. You never know when or how the rent will go up. Yeah they want to decrease income to subsistence levels. Indentured servants had a theoretical end point so they're higher than us. We're not exactly slaves but we're serfs and it's not a big difference.