• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why would someone need to work a degrading job simply to remain housed, other than because such impositions support the profit motive for landlords, lenders, and employers?

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      1 year ago

      Why do you think it is because of that? Do you think the temp agriculture jobs, for example, would suddenly become having huge payments if farmers, who hires temp workers, have no profit? Please consider that farming is subsidized in US, because it is difficult to make profits there. Or do you think that cleaners who work in non-profit organizations have huge salaries and interesting job?

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        1 year ago

        I doubt there could be much meaning in the assertion that corporate farms “suddenly” would have no profits.

        Corporate farms are structured around the profit motive, which is supported by the claim they assert for exclusive control over certain plots of the land, and for exclusive ownership of the products from using such land. For farm workers not to be exploited, they must stop upholding respect for such claims. Plainly, their lives would be vastly better in consequence, as the value of their products would distributed only among themselves, with no share being taken from them by anyone else simply from a claim to ownership.