I know these kinds of hypothetical questions are kind of boring, but I was curious what you guys that about this.

The situation is: I am a relatively wealthy person, with enough investment properties to rent out for income and live off. I decide to rent at a price below the market value and attempt to get tenants who are trying to live in the area but are not financially stable, so I can provide some sort of assistance by giving to them cheaper than they can get elsewhere.

I now don't have to work a single hour a day.

I use a full-time work schedule to do all of the following tasks (aside from other things like cooking, cleaning, exercise) (in no particular order):

  • Manage the properties I own
  • Study theory
  • Attempt various worker organisation activities/union activities
  • Participate in Communist Party meetings
  • Partake in Communist Party activities
  • Volunteer for numerous mutual aid groups
  • Protest
  • Write (online articles) and all the other sorts of activities. In other words, attempt to be a "professional revolutionary" as I believe Lenin put it.

Would this be a moral course of action? Or does living purely off the rent of workers outweigh dedicating basically my whole spare time to my nation's socialist movement?

Edit: Just for context I'm not actually in this position lol.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It’s not cool to expect working people to pay for your life of baizuo larping.

      Yeah you're pretty much saying "me exploiting you is fine because that's offset by me being a great communist revolutionary" which is both probably wrong and most definitely narcissistic.

      • steve5487 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        you could start your own business and just employ yourself especially if you have the capital to be buying up land

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          fair

          I dunno, any more, I am inclined to think engaging with the market is just a huge risk of liberalism. Look and Dengism. it worked because they had the resources of the biggest country on earth and they still had to do several rounds of corruption purging

          • steve5487 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            landlords are more likely to become liberals than people with jobs. Also calling someone getting a job "engaging with the market" is the most terminally online thing I have ever read

            • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              starting a business is becoming a manager.
              Getting a job is getting a job. But jobs in America suck.

              Having to pay for health insurance and deciding weather or not to hire an old person or not because they will cost you more in health insurance and be less productive is the liberalizing force of engaging with the marker.

                • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  then we are back to the soc dem probelm. To a successful buisness you need to make money, to make money is to exploit others. What could be done that is worth the time?

                  • steve5487 [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    well not really if you take money in exchange for producing value that's not exploitative

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          The only thing that can stop a bad guy with half my pay check is a good guy with half my pay check