This is so well said. I can work 3 or less hours a day (in NYC, no less) and afford my rent and all of my bills fairly easily. I’m not ripping people off with what I sell, I make it all and assemble it myself, I use the USPS for shipping, and I feel like I am getting the true value out of what I produce.
I don’t need to be laboring in a mine 10 hours a day, I don’t need to be burning myself out doing 12 hour days making coffee like I did in college. It actually takes very little work to provide for yourself when you don’t have to make somebody else wealthy with your labor
Also, if you’re paying rent, chances are you’re mostly paying literal economic rent, as in, value that isn’t attributable to any increase in labour inputs or improvements.
If your rent was just the minimum of labour necessary to build the property and upkeep it, you’d see your necessary working time reduce further.
Exactly. I’m paying somebody else’s mortgage basically which is now only half of the people leaching off of my labor but still so fucking insane that I need to prove my ability to sell my labor value just to have a bare minimum safe place to live. Fucking insane that people just live like this and never question it
This is so well said. I can work 3 or less hours a day (in NYC, no less) and afford my rent and all of my bills fairly easily. I’m not ripping people off with what I sell, I make it all and assemble it myself, I use the USPS for shipping, and I feel like I am getting the true value out of what I produce.
I don’t need to be laboring in a mine 10 hours a day, I don’t need to be burning myself out doing 12 hour days making coffee like I did in college. It actually takes very little work to provide for yourself when you don’t have to make somebody else wealthy with your labor
Also, if you’re paying rent, chances are you’re mostly paying literal economic rent, as in, value that isn’t attributable to any increase in labour inputs or improvements.
If your rent was just the minimum of labour necessary to build the property and upkeep it, you’d see your necessary working time reduce further.
Exactly. I’m paying somebody else’s mortgage basically which is now only half of the people leaching off of my labor but still so fucking insane that I need to prove my ability to sell my labor value just to have a bare minimum safe place to live. Fucking insane that people just live like this and never question it
wait, how did covid make this happen? I thought they only sent out like a single $600 stimulus check or something
You were eligible for up to $600 weekly