Spyke

Owning capital isn't either, and yet it's the cornerstone of the rigged casino we call our economy.

You pay way more tax on the money you labor for than the money you win through gambling on Wall Street, and while you may win or lose, the owners can and do effect the outcomes to ensure they win.

Oh and just to be clear, the winners are not the workers or the society, but private shareholders, and almost certainly not you to any significant degree.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

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lemmy.world

What about working to maintain said land

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Most landlords don't do that, they just pay others to from the money they've leeched from tenants. Being a middle man leech still isn't a job.

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Maintenance is a job. Most people whose job it is to maintain land don’t own that land themselves however.

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kbin.social

Owning land with a livable structure on it, and keeping it to the standards of living in is a job.

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lemmy.world

Maintaining the structure is a job, sure, but most landlords don't do that, they just pay others to do it out of the money they leeched from tenants. Being a middle man leech isn't a job either.

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Being a middle man leech isn't a job either.

Managers hate him because of this one weird trick!

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Well I have a few rich friends and they said it's incredibly profitable and you don't actually have to do anything since you can just hire someone that does it for you. It also barely needs maintenance since the people living there are responsible for cleaning their house.

Unlike a hotel, it barely needs staff.

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lemmy.ca

Unless you're a farmer/rancher. Then it's a way of life.

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No, that's a job. Especially since you could lease the land or work for someone else.

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lemmy.world

I'd say renting out property you own is not a job, owning land and keeping it nice and clean or dare I say it growing some vegetables is very much a job.

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owning land

Isn't a job.

keeping it nice and clean or dare I say it growing some vegetables is very much a job.

Correct.

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lemmy.world

The job is not owning the farmland, it's WORKING that land, hence the term.

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A farmers job is farming. Most farmers in history didn’t even own the land they worked on tbh.

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You reached the end

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