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In this house, we believe (slrpnk.net)

submitted 9 months ago by j_roby to c/memes

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're framing the issue all wrong. Money is fake. Housing is necessary to live. Maybe everyone should just have a house and we shouldn't commodify a necessity to living. Same with food and water. Anyone who profiteers off of a life necessity is a parasite.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Who's going to gather the lumber, pour the foundation, frame the house, mine the copper, install the electrical wiring, and all that shit? It sounds nice to say "maybe everyone should just have a house", but houses don't grow out of the ground. It takes considerable manpower, knowledge, skill, and resources to build a house. The people involved in that process deserve & require compensation. You can debate if it's best to receive that compensation through a socialist system where they receive other goods and services in exchange, a communist system where everyone labors and receives according to state distribution, or through our current capitalist system, but it's naive to say "just give everyone a house".