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.

  • 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