Oh yeah. Not only landlordism, but landownerism, people who care about “property values”. Half of land owners are actively workers and half of landlords came from the working class. Overall, it’s like the renting LA is paying dues to the land-market so that it is valuable when they buy into it. Not like this is a conscious action of individuals, it’s just how the relationship between rents and land values works in the US.

Right, value is a measure of abstract labor embodied into commodity, right? There is a dollar amount that represents the total mass of value created in a year, approximates as Global GDP. Wages are prices paid to access that labor-power, and profit is obtained by paying less than that value of labor-power and trying to sell its precipitates closer to the real value. Wages paid, on average, are the portion of the value of labor-power that is required to reproduce said labor power. Workers in total take home about ~51% of global GDP, we can round to a half, workers take home, directly in wages, about half of global GPD. Workers on average, work about 2000 hours per year. So there is an estimate for the global value of labor per hour: (Gobal GDP/(Num Workers * 2k hours)) around ~$13/hr of labor. Since half is taken by workers directly, the global average wage is ~$6.5/hr, meaning that’s on average how much it costs to produce a worker in the world today.

Globally, Capital has to purchase an hour of labor for less that $13 to make a profit. So what’s going on in the US, where 94% of labor-power is purchased for more than that, where on average, USian labor-power is sold for ~$58 (2023, assuming 1800 hrs, 27T GDP, 62% labor share), where, if the US existed in a vacuum, USian labor-power is worth in wages ~$85?

What’s going on?

Well, specifically, because the US Bourgeoisie, the Imperialists main bloc, are monopolists, they get to command the prices labor-power over many more workers than just those that exist in the US. They purchase many times more labor-power in the Global South than they do from US (Global North in general), and they also purchase it for cheap, duress prices, significantly lower than even the average wage (which represents 50% exploitation). They purchase so much of this labor-power at such a low price, and make such big profits from it, that they can over-pay a numerically smaller group of workers in the Imperialist countries. It makes a lot more sense to take more surplus-value from very distant workers who barely know you exist, vs the ones who live across town. If the draw from the distant workers is large enough, then even a bulk of workers near “home” for the Imperialists can be given, or exact from them, prices for labor-power more expensive than its worth, but, by keeping them close and satiated, the overall systems is more profitable than it would be if all of the workers in the world were paid below value. Since the Imperialists made commodities from the distant workers cheaper by paying them lower wages, when those commodities are transformed into other commodities, the Imperialists account the value added as created “at home”, so the GDP of the US appears to be more significant than the actual value of labor-power it contains, because it is accounting the labor of the distant workers as its own. Dependent, smaller Bourgs are let in to keep them from competing with the Imperialists, by offering them the same prices as the Monopolists are able to obtain globally, so this allows Capitalists without a global labor force to match the high wages paid to the “home” workers of Imperialists. This is why doing such calculations within a US factory floor, can produce numbers that look like above.

So what does this mean for wage struggle relations between the GN and GS workers? Well, when one side struggles and gets back a proportion of profits, the Capitalists as a class have created a two-tier labor hierarchy, protected by deadly borders. They have a tendency of shifting the burden to the other workers. GN wages tend to go up, GS wages tend to go down. Real productivity gains in the collective production of humanity increase all wages, or the pool of available value, up over time. However, the gap between GN and GS wages are widening year over year. These wages aren’t abstract either, they are ultimately how much labor-power workers are able to purchase. So in the end, the wage gap is what allows GN workers to consume more labor-power, in calories, cars, meat, clean water, roads, gasoline, electricity. Anyway, this balancing act puts GN and GS workers in contradiction, and ultimately, profitability is determined mostly by the ability to exploit GS labor in much larger quantities. To actually attack profits, a struggle must be coordinated internationally to ensure the GS workers aren’t taking the burden for GN struggles, and that the Imperialists can’t just pass on the burden to the other group. Generally, the global working class contradiction is only lessened by GS struggles, because it’s the small minority of workers of the GN who are already receiving a share of profits globally.

Investigated deeper into this so-called “basket of American dream essentials”:

1. Housing that “guarantees safety” (segregated)
2. Insurance premiums, laundry services, hygiene and cosmetics
3. Eating out
4. Driving 15k miles and getting hotels and food on the road
5. Year round babysitter for children under 4, seasonal for school age

6. College degree for each child without student loans (lmao?)
7. Toys and youth sports (haven’t checked the quantities)
8. Smartphones, computers, television sets, streaming services
9. Running shoes + “clothing”
10. 6 movies and 2 MLB games every year for a nuke family

Besides their “War on Russia” and multiple times hacking the PRC, a big example would be them attacking Syria for claims that the government took out communication infra during a “crackdown”. It turns out, it was the US NSA that took down Syria’s telecoms during an ISIS invasion so Anonymous went out of their way to prevent any messaging between the government fighting ISIS and the civilian population.

No, and they aren’t even “anti-Auth”, the US isn’t on their chart, Britian ain’t there either. They are basically middle class moralists and join their colonial governments in terrorizing the infrastructure of states oppressed by Imperialism. They are little digital missionary rats.

Tamils have lived on the Island for over 2000 years and their angst against the Republic is for issues in the last two centuries with land grabs and displacement targeted at them. Referring to them being “colonizers” is very irrelevant to the struggles in the country.

i’ve been saying this, and Canada is just a front for the Hudson Bay Company

the settlers are along for the ride

Zelensky has been ruling unelected for like a year now, and the president before him was unelected. The president before that was impeached by a Parliament that blocked his party from voting the day after neo Nazis tried to assassinate him.

And complacency

No

Using python makes it much easier to maintain scripts especially if they are useful for many people. I like bash for adhoc stuff on my machine or my sandbox, but most of my coworkers are not strong in it so it’s not good for prod ops.

~50k soldiers in a population of 1.4M, this is a pretty absurd contribution to the problem by the military

Hasn’t there been multiple attempts on Booker?

Rural land is organized in communes, you can move to the countryside from the city, but you must be invited into the commune or rent from it as a tenant, costing you for the privilege of using their land.

The cities are only so big as they are developed, and growth takes time and energy. Due to the market, living in the cities costs more, so you can move from the countryside to the cities, if you can afford it (i.e. stable job), which is hard because the city can only plan for so many jobs in any given time.

Moving like that is difficult, and is more expensive than staying put, because the real economic cost of such a move has an expensive impact on the whole economy. This applies everywhere, which is why some lineages haven’t left Southside Chicago or South Central LA since it those neighborhoods were redlined, and the life expectancy is almost a decade shorter than the metro average:

Movement only “feels free” in the US, because much of the population is able to pay for the freedom of movement (using surplus labor).

This system is also partially why many of the big cities are provinces in their own. It gives provincial, and hukuo powers to the urbanites to decide how they want to grow (within the constraints of the overall state plan). In the US, instead it’s often people with freedom cash pushing out existing urbanites, sometimes into the outskirts, sometimes into more concentrated enclaves, sometimes onto the streets.

Nah the math still checks out, just don’t take his political conclusions for shit

Worldwide Law of Value - Samir Amin

MIM’s Imperial Class Structure 1997

Divided World Divided Class - Zak Cope

Labor Aristocracy, Mass Base of Social Democracy - HW Edwards

Lenin at the international: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jul/x03.htm#fw4

Likely, Israeli society has castes based on national origin, Muslim and Christian Palestians are at the bottom:

Really interesting video from a “Mizrahi” Jewish person and anti-Zionist: https://youtu.be/5MVIh6Rnzog

In fact you can think of much of the way the state and bourgeoisie has acted since 2008 has been to ensure that line recovers to where it should have been if no collapse. Yes, Obama foreclosed on people (mostly “new wealth” Black and Latino people), but he “saved” hundreds of millions of (mostly white) portfolios.

The Bourgeoisie knows that line is necessary to deflate class struggle, they know they’ll struggle with military recruitment if soldiers can’t expect to own a home at the end of their service.

For tailing it’s falling for the 80% of landlords that are “small” crying about corporate competition in their little dictatorships: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6510977/5686588

The thought that they’d buy single family homes to rent out is novel to me at least; I’d never heard of such a thing before.

They started getting involved in SFH after the foreclosures of 08, because they did not lose much relative net worth compared to people who own 1-10 homes, who lost net worth on all their assets at that time. They didn’t get involved before that because not many people were renting SFH in the 80s and 90s and prior, those homes were only for the middling strata and up. Also, by just financing homes in the past while prices continued to rise, there was no reason to get their hands involved to add more work when they can just seek interest on all development. When hundreds of thousands of homes suddenly became available, that’s when they took the opportunity to turn it into a business. And yeah I’m minimizing them because they are indeed a minimal (0.6% of all SFH stock) component of the market and concentrated in a few markets, but that is not tied to the overall indeces of those markets whatsoever. Any investor who owns the home would have the same position as any other, corporate or “mom and pop”, the resulting market will be the same.

Liberal/Petty Bourgeois media is taking advantage of the novelty of corporate investors in SFH to use us to fight for protections backing “small investors” worth millions against competition.

Housing costs (and building) are raising extra fast post 2009 because they received basically 0% interest rates to finance more homes to “recover” from the financial crisis. That corporate investors got in at that time is a simultaneous symptom of the crisis, which always benefits the highest bourgs as they eat up small capital owners (good riddance).

There is finally the last aspect that SFH cities or neighborhoods have become the “standard model” of US housing culture since the early 2000s, this is related to the eventual financial crisis too.