Housing and food are necessary for survival and easily provided communally, we go out of our way to keep houses empty and lock dumpsters full of food until it all rots rather than give it away. The labor is already done and the fruits of it are thrown away or locked up because profit motive says so. Your money only loses value over time because of inflation, inflation only happens because we insist on constantly printing more money. None of the shit you’re talking about is natural or unavoidable, it’s all deliberate and definitionally exploitative.
Empty homes aren’t common where I come from, but construction and maintenance still require someone’s labour. Food that’s past expiry date but not spoiled is sold at a deep discount or donated to the food bank. It still requires someone’s labour to grow the food.
Someone still has to put in the work. That means if you don’t work, even in a hypothetical communist country, someone else still has to work to provide you with your necessities. Until we can truly automate everything, at least.
Inflation means the rich can’t hoard the money in their bank accounts and it has to be circulated in some manner to retain value. Covid and the Russian and Epstein-Trump wars of aggression aside, salary growth has generally matched or outpaced inflation where I come from. If that’s not the case for you, you need unions and better control of your politicians. Mild inflation benefits the working class, not the rich… In a healthy society.
Inflation does absolutely nothing to prevent rich people from hoarding money or forcing it to actually circulate, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
Housing and food are necessary for survival and easily provided communally, we go out of our way to keep houses empty and lock dumpsters full of food until it all rots rather than give it away. The labor is already done and the fruits of it are thrown away or locked up because profit motive says so. Your money only loses value over time because of inflation, inflation only happens because we insist on constantly printing more money. None of the shit you’re talking about is natural or unavoidable, it’s all deliberate and definitionally exploitative.
Oh you must be American.
Empty homes aren’t common where I come from, but construction and maintenance still require someone’s labour. Food that’s past expiry date but not spoiled is sold at a deep discount or donated to the food bank. It still requires someone’s labour to grow the food.
Someone still has to put in the work. That means if you don’t work, even in a hypothetical communist country, someone else still has to work to provide you with your necessities. Until we can truly automate everything, at least.
Inflation means the rich can’t hoard the money in their bank accounts and it has to be circulated in some manner to retain value. Covid and the Russian and Epstein-Trump wars of aggression aside, salary growth has generally matched or outpaced inflation where I come from. If that’s not the case for you, you need unions and better control of your politicians. Mild inflation benefits the working class, not the rich… In a healthy society.
Inflation does absolutely nothing to prevent rich people from hoarding money or forcing it to actually circulate, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.