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Everything belongs to the workers (lemmy.ml)

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[–] zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The existence of inheritance makes people think of housing as a nest egg and investment vehicle, to be dispensed before or after death as a profit making instrument to their children. This is why large swathes of home-owners are interested in house prices always climbing, to the detriment of the non-homeowning portion of the working class.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

If I remember correctly, housing costs were allowed to balloon like they have for precisely this reason, to make workers willing to accept the disappearance of pensions as an expected benefit.