So everybody should be a contractor? I have done both and I honestly appreciate the benefits of a salary without all the risks and overhead of contracting. Or founding and managing a cooperative.

I always wanted to ask this so might as well now, feel free to answer if you want: what are the means of production? In $cureent_year, that is.

We are not in 1870 Germany. We don’t all work in huge factories owned by Rockefellers. I work in IT. My means of production is a laptop. I do own a few. I sell my labor to whoever needs IT services. Am I a capitalist or a communist? In the past I work for a big company and used their laptop. Was I being exploited?

The painter that is coming to fix my walls owns his ladder and spraygun. I assume he bought the paint with his own money. I don’t know about the van, he might own it too. He sells his labor to me, who don’t own anything of his. Is he a capitalist?

If they don’t live in Pennsylvania, Arizona or Nevada, they also don’t count.

And the president is Hugo Chavez 🇵🇪

You can remove the strike through, it’s literally slave labor. The US constitution never abolished slavery, just limited it. To prisoners.

What kind of dentist measures blood pressure?

Wrong audience for this message. Most on lemmy are still running with their fingers in their ears yelling la-la-la really loud.

My guess would be most of them. Based on nothing.

Thus “in countries with strong regulations”…

If the landlord doesn’t fix things you stop paying rent. At least in countries with strong regulations (Mietminderung in Germany).

It’s not that passive. If you want passive income get an ETF. We are selling our old apartment because of all the hassle of renting.

So does a lawyer, a mechanic, a doctor or a delivery guy. They offer a service in exchange for money.

I think they mean they want lower taxes, guns, and no gay marriage, but between trump or a democrat they choose the democrat, Harris in this case.

ITT: Germans complaining that everything is not perfect and incapable of appreciating all the good the Deutschland ticket has done.

It was kept in Spanish tho, naranja.

Skibidi.

ipchains… That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…

It helps if you jump on them

CE(S)T reaches all the way to Finisterre in (Spanish) Galicia, well past Greenwich, which should be one hour behind, so basically at least 3 times zones. I blame Hitler.

/r/iamverysmart