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Fair enough 👍

Using the footage from the video I can infer most of that, and I've mixed that with my own knowledge of what management fees in apartment blocks usually pay for elsewhere in the world. I accept I might be missing some functions or have incorrectly included one or two in my assumptions.

The management is the grounds care (I.e. the gardeners and landscapers), the security, the facilities managers who are called when things break, and the cleaners that clean all the communal spaces like hallways, paths, communal toilets.

The only ones who wouldn't be included would be any specifically domestic workers who work directly for individual families.

But, I would say the collectivisation of domestic work (cleaning companies, restaurants;cafés;take-out, baby-sitters etc.) is a good thing that capitalism has done that is bad in so far as it relies on the exploitation of the worker's labour and the poor conditions they might be subject to. The concept is good, the execution is what counts.

Have you tried noise-cancelling headphones? They've been a game changer for me with road noise at work.

Fighting a protracted people's war is certainly admirable, is it the correct strategy in all circumstances? No. Is it the right strategy in the Phillipines? It has a severe lack of results to speak for itself, instead the maoists say China's revisionism is why they're failing. Even if that's the case, why would they still then continue with a PPW that is achieving very little instead of analysing concrete conditions and applying a different strategy that might be more fruitful?

"Anti-revisionists", looks inside: revisionists

They mention that people who work for the management company get free residence in the block as part of the job perks @3:36 in the video.

The article I shared also comes to similar conclusions looking at Marx's takes on consumption/over-consumption - basically that capitalist consumption can be done better, fairer and still provide an outlet for people's needs and wants. This is one of those ways - a lot of the shit we buy is purposefully enshittified to make us buy more of it than we would otherwise purchase if things were built to last.

I believe that consumerism is a social ill in so far as it is an outlet for genuine human desires for creativity and self-expression, that under capitalism becomes incredibly damaging ecologically and potentially socially. Under a fairer and saner economic system, the manifestation of those same desires is much less likely to be so destructive as rampant capitalist consumerism.

For further reading: https://redsails.org/the-negation-of-abnegation/

My Chinese comrade told me when the exodus to xhs happened to remember that it was very much the Instagram equivalent used by mostly the well-to-do Chinese on the mainland. It is still very much a particular wedge of Chinese society and should be viewed as such.

You are an ignorant fool whose behaviour directly leads to the rise of parties like Reform and the constant electoral return of the Tory Party in the past. Labour are controlled opposition that have always been the release valve for pent-up frustration for workers, ceding ground to the right over and over again by allowing the overton window to remain in the ridiculous position it's ended up in.

The only time the Labour party achieved anything radical was on the heels of WW2 when the growing strength of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, alongside workers being trained to use arms and having recently fought a bloody war against fascists and ready to fight capital at home violently, brought a whole suite of very radical reforms to the system as concessions to the working class. These have been systematically stripped back for the last 5 decades and Labour had been a willing partner in the transition, no longer fearing being held accountable by the class they claim to represent.

Further reading for interested lurkers on the post-war concessions given in the capitalist nations: https://redsails.org/concessions/

Don't look up how South Korea formed and how for nearly the majority of its existence it was a military junta that the capitalist world pretended barely even existed until money was poured into it during the 90s at the end of the Cold War.