Is a Message of Class Warfare a Good Idea for Democrats

[MysteryConman]

@boredsocial

I’m pretty mind blown that nobody has mentioned intellectual property, professional licensing requirements, and regulatory capture.

These are areas worth discussing as well. This thread is relatively new and short, so we haven’t touched on them here yet. However, sabo did touch on the IP aspect in the climate thread. You and/or clovis may have had him on ignore at that time though…

@Sabo

Modern capitalism is often said to have three main pillars… the wage system relationship, the landlord system relationship, the loans at interest relationship. Archaic capitalism had the slavery relationship, the sharecropping relationship, etc/etc. And this is all a gloss, because it leaves out the so-called “fourth pillar”… the intellectual property relationship, and etc/etc.

@boredsocial

All three of those things drive more rent seeking than owning real estate.

Considering that half of my monthly nut goes to paying for housing, I feel that this may not be correct. I don’t feel I’m unique in that respect either, many working people have 20-30%+ of their monthly income going towards rent.