My apartment building is requiring us to pay $30 for an app to allow us to continue parking in the garage, which we already pay $75 a month for. The entire American experience is just a continuous process of being hit with random fees and charges that only exist to further pad margins. I didn’t get the app and my car got towed from a spot I pay on time each month to have. It cost me $375 to retrieve my car. All for parking in a spot I pay for.
I work full time IT and I'm a part time professor at a college, and I don't think I'll be able to buy a decent house maybe any.
The only way I Live an okay life is by working so much and making good pay from these jobs that slightly more comes in than goes out.
There's an even darker side to it than greedy business owners. They are also just cogs in the machine of capital, just as the oppressor class. They are subordinate to the mechanisms of capitalism itself, and are taking an extra dollop off the top, no doubt, but the greater share goes back into the machine whose purpose is to simply turn things into more things, always increasing in exchange value, regardless of what that thing is or how much it hurts people or what ridiculous redundancies are created or what countries it destroys.
The machine itself has to be destroyed, it's the engine that creates the monsters.
Absolutely, it's the same mechanic as natural selection in nature. The system creates selection pressures on society, and people act in a way that makes sense for them to act given those pressures. The system ends up selecting for particular behaviors that are successful within its constraints. A really great concrete example of this in action is what happened when USSR dissolved and the transition to capitalism happened. All of a sudden the same people who were acting as communists under the old system quickly saw the new opportunities presented to them and turned into oligarchs overnight.
Yuuup, because to pretty much everyone on top, it's not sadistic, it's business as usual. They don't typically experience the crushing despair of the poor.
This system is working as intended and must be transformed so dramatically as to be nearly unrecognizable or fall altogether.
