When social life is organised for the production of commodities people will start identifying with their their commodities. Once they tie their personal value to that of their commodity, such as a house, an assault on the value of their property is seen as equal to an assault on their person.
This. Housing is also the only way an entire generation created enough wealth to live normal lives. Making middle/upper class Americans obsess over housing prices and the same stock market was a brilliant stroke by the owner class.
Housing becomes more than a commodity under capitalism. It's your retreat from the workplace, from exploitation, from capitalism. It's a coping mechanism based on intentional ignorance. Having poor people, living embodyment's of Capitalism's failures, shatters that reality.
When social life is organised for the production of commodities people will start identifying with their their commodities. Once they tie their personal value to that of their commodity, such as a house, an assault on the value of their property is seen as equal to an assault on their person.
This. Housing is also the only way an entire generation created enough wealth to live normal lives. Making middle/upper class Americans obsess over housing prices and the same stock market was a brilliant stroke by the owner class.
It ascends to genius when you realise that the GI bill which made home-ownership accessible to so many in the first place deliberately excluded poc.
Capitalism and fascism marching hand-in-hand.
Housing becomes more than a commodity under capitalism. It's your retreat from the workplace, from exploitation, from capitalism. It's a coping mechanism based on intentional ignorance. Having poor people, living embodyment's of Capitalism's failures, shatters that reality.
I'm essence: the frontier mentality
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