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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:45 PM Jan 2019

A little late...

I can't believe the government suggested renters who can't pay their rent because the government is shut down and they aren't getting paid to offer to do work for their landlords in lieu of payment. SMH


It made me think of a scene in The Grifters where Annette Benning's character offers the landlord sexual favors in lieu of payment.

SMH

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A little late... (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2019 OP
I'm sure whoever wrote that memo to employees would approve of that. KPN Jan 2019 #1
SMH DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2019 #2
Not surprised though Lotusflower70 Jan 2019 #3
When one's mind is set to 2naSalit Jan 2019 #4
Much as I dislike the reality of the situation in many ways, there's a reason that capitalism works mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #5
The sheer impracticality of the suggestion. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2019 #6

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)
3. Not surprised though
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:50 PM
Jan 2019

This shit show administration is full of the most idiotic people so of course the most idiotic suggestions would come from them. They are completely out of touch with people that are working for a living. They are totally clueless and indifferent to people's struggles. They don't care.

2naSalit

(86,685 posts)
4. When one's mind is set to
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:57 PM
Jan 2019

understand that everything is for sale, they don't get why some people think that some things aren't for sale.

Capitalism has reached it's climax and it's really fucking ugly, perhaps we should kill it.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. Much as I dislike the reality of the situation in many ways, there's a reason that capitalism works
Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:20 PM
Jan 2019

and socialism/communism do not work, in actual practice.

And that is ... life on this planet has been forged and created, essentially, by the very basic concept of 'competition'.

Yes, there are numerous examples of 'cooperation' within species (or even between species in symbiotic relationships), and of course 'cooperation' confers advantages as well, but this is a MUCH newer evolutionary development.

Fact is, we as people have a genetic heritage of 4,000,000,000 years of ancestors ... that were competitors. Any species that doesn't compete ... dies. Our species wouldn't be here if a single ancestor of ours were not effective competitors. Our 'line' would've died out.

Competing is a much more basic instinct, in all life forms, and as humans I'd bet any amount that we will eventually compete our way to extinction, rather than cooperate our way to NOT going extinct.

Capitalism is not going away, because competition is a more instinctual aspect of our nature ... than cooperation is.

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