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[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 102 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When I grow up I'ma be a parking spot.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Know who else gets cars parked on em?

My mom!

[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OK, miss the Reddit hive mind as little as anyone else here, but I laughed.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Your mom" has always, and will always be golden comedy material.

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some openings are just too easy not to take.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago

Just like...
Ahh screw it!

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

It's honest work.

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[–] moriquende@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A human is definitely generating more value than the parking space, it's just most of it is being stolen by greedy capitalists.

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The United States was dealt its final blow half a century ago at the hands of an Alzheimer's patient by the name of Ronald Reagan.

This is the necrotic stage.

[–] machin_shin@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

It was the US education system that suffered

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

And what a lovely hat it is.

[–] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] sigh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

"What's Toronto? You must be talking about The City,"

  • Toronto man
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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fuck don't say real things

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"fuck don't say real things"

As you wish.

There's still hope!

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

oh god, it's worse, go back

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[–] Monkey_d_luffy@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’re making us lose our reasons for living. Life’s too hard and not worth it at this stage. Feel bad for all the babies born everyday. The majority of them are going to have hard lives and grow up too hate every second of it most of the rest of the world.

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then we need to bring violence to boardrooms and executives homes.

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[–] ox0r@jlai.lu 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Turn that sadness into anger, turn the anger in a deep, boiling rage. You know where to direct it, dismantle the whole system little by little. You know who are the guilty ones, we all do

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

oh, you don't think that the capitalist don't want that? who do you think is going to take power in a revolution?

look back, it is always an authoritarian aristocracy.

if you want to make the world better for the working class, we need to enact reforms, not revolutions.

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But have you considered there is also less demand for you than a downtown Toronto parking space?? Ha! Check mate!

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. I dispute that, you haven't seen me striptease yet

  2. More that it's a matter of negotiation leverage. Rich folk find it hard to outwait other rich folk regarding property prices. Poor folk, though? We have a matter of days before we collapse because of our silly 'human needs' and such, which makes it imperative that we be kept desperate, lest our pay even vaguely reflect the amount of surplus value extracted from us.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what I am hearing is, not only is that parking space a harder worker than you, that pulled itself up by the ~~boot straps~~ concrete slabs, it is also a more talented negotiator than you. Shame.

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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

If you squat the parking space does that mean you can raise demand for yourself enough to receive higher compensation than the parking space alone?

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the feudal stage of capitalism where the rich recaptured all the real estate and are making tons of profit just sitting on it.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Feudalism>Mercantilism>Capitalism>Feudalism

I don't think I like this sequence.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was looking at Toronto real estate just for the lulz the other day... 150k$ to buy a parking space... First thing I found surprising is that you can buy a parking space (wtf?) But even more surprising... They sell for more than I paid for my condo 10 minutes from downtown Ottawa 10 years ago 😐

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you could rent it out for the 27 an hour like they stated above you could start seeing a return in as little as 5 years. Sounds like a great investment.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

It's an amazing investment because it pays for itself AND its value will increase because managers are idiots and are bringing people back to the office.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Catch being you have to live in Ottawa.

[–] Techmaster@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't open a business downtown unless you have a damn good reason for it. It's a massive real estate monopoly.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, um, we are going to need y'all to return to the office for, um, "productivity" reasons.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Just looked at a studio apartment at my old complex. It's $2,995 a month. About $100 a day, assuming a 30-day month. You need to pay hotel prices just to live in a studio apartment (with a lease) here.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try having less thoughts and feelings maybe?

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