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
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