They’re making us lose our reasons for living. Life’s too hard and not worth it at this stage. Feel bad for all the babies born everyday. The majority of them are going to have hard lives and grow up too hate every second of it most of the rest of the world.
Turn that sadness into anger, turn the anger in a deep, boiling rage. You know where to direct it, dismantle the whole system little by little. You know who are the guilty ones, we all do
I dispute that, you haven't seen me striptease yet
More that it's a matter of negotiation leverage. Rich folk find it hard to outwait other rich folk regarding property prices. Poor folk, though? We have a matter of days before we collapse because of our silly 'human needs' and such, which makes it imperative that we be kept desperate, lest our pay even vaguely reflect the amount of surplus value extracted from us.
So what I am hearing is, not only is that parking space a harder worker than you, that pulled itself up by the boot straps concrete slabs, it is also a more talented negotiator than you. Shame.
I was looking at Toronto real estate just for the lulz the other day... 150k$ to buy a parking space... First thing I found surprising is that you can buy a parking space (wtf?) But even more surprising... They sell for more than I paid for my condo 10 minutes from downtown Ottawa 10 years ago 😐
If you could rent it out for the 27 an hour like they stated above you could start seeing a return in as little as 5 years. Sounds like a great investment.
It's an amazing investment because it pays for itself AND its value will increase because managers are idiots and are bringing people back to the office.
Just looked at a studio apartment at my old complex. It's $2,995 a month. About $100 a day, assuming a 30-day month. You need to pay hotel prices just to live in a studio apartment (with a lease) here.
How about we just get rid of parking in cities, so there will be no complaining about how much they charge for parking. Cars are gay as fuck anyways, just have sidewalks, bike roads, and actually good public transport lmao (tbf not something you can exactly find in most of the US & Canada)
Public transportation will always have the flaws of making you share a space with strangers and not being able take you to your destination without making a bunch of random stops on places that you don't give a fuck about.
The parking space doesn't make shit. The city is the one profiting, for a space you're using, so dumb.
If the parking space was an employee, i assure you it would make way less than her, because it's not a complicated job. There's nothing wrong here, just people bad at understanding economics.
Even as a leftist, this feels like a very silly take. It’s not the spot making anything, it’s like any other resource.
The blight of parking spots all over is definitely an issue, but a property “making” money doesn’t seem like a great argument. Am I being dumb on this?
I mean, on one hand, it's not meant to be an in-depth economic essay on the unfairness of modern capitalism, so there is an element of silliness to it.
On the other hand, it highlights the very real fact that labor and human life are horrendously undervalued by our current system, which expresses value in monetary terms, to the point where even a very small and relatively unimproved amount of land only slightly larger than a human being garners a higher price than actual human input that makes our society run on the most basic level.
To be sure it’s apples to oranges imo. But, I think, an analogy can be drawn.
Maybe a more accurate way to think about it is that the parking space is worth more to the owner of that company than I am to my current boss at 22.50 us dollars per hour.
But only because there is an actual limited and finite number of parking spots in any given area… unfortunately the less specialized a position is the greater number of people there are to take it… and with 8+ billion people on the earth odds are good you can be relatively easily replaced even at higher skill level jobs…
And FTR I am not justifying the poor wages of the working class (i.e. almost everyone who isn’t a boomer or a “rich” person)… but this comparison is a little foolish and fails at making the point the OP wanted to make… we’re stuck in Capitalism. Supply and demand. There can be no more parking spaces in certain places but we’re constantly making new people…
It showcases the difference between owners and workers.
A worker is a full person, with all of the different qualities that involves as the tweet mentions. And to earn money they have to put their body and mind to use. Using their energy and will.
An owner has to own a piece of land.. which earns them over double that of what the worker earns. And that's literally it. Society rewards the owner for this.