• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    We’re literally doing that in capitalist countries. If I want to break my lease without finding a subletter, it would cost 10% of the median annual income.

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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      Maybe Marx was right?

      The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, [administrator and worker, MBA and engineer, director and doctor, landlord and tenant], in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another…"