By investing in publicly traded stock, you’re purchasing part ownership of the means of production and making profits off someone else’s labor. I don’t see how you can even justify owning small amounts of stocks when it contributes to such awful things on a massive scale.
My question is why leftists generally are fine with investing in stocks (see the other comments), but not being a landlord. Is it just a matter of how much income you're making, or how direct the exploitation is?
Maybe it's because stocks are more impersonal than owning land? Or maybe it's because owning stocks doesn't give you power over someone else's basic right to live idk. I think both are bad
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Dividends are tiny, you usually get like a few dollars a year from the amount of stock normmal people can own