Krampus
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There is a huge difference between a private owner, and a corporation. Anyhow they might have a common approach, I would say estate ownership should be limited to a certain number through incremental taxation the more you own the larger the tax bracket, like we do for income
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Slovenija too. It's probably a thing in a large part of Europe.
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In a classless stateless utopia where food was free and no one had to work it would still be considered polite and common courtesy to put away your shopping cart when you're done using it at the local food co-op.
The floor shitting analogy is that we shouldn't have people doing something rude just because it creates or maintains another job. Everyone can agree on the floor shitting analogy and it maps perfectly onto this argument. If you want you can add a preamble of "in this world, everyone used to shit on floors and there was a janitorial staff to clean it up."
They put on self-service tills in the hope that folk would do it free. When they used to hire 30 checkout staff, they now hire 2 per 12 tills, so they save on 20 checkout staff per shift. Of course they weren't redeployed to shelf stacking, as they already had shelf stackers. They just went to the job centre.
So by this logic you want gas station attendants back at gas stations, and for people to stop using ATM machines in favor of tellers? Maybe we shouldn't use computers because of all of the stenography and data management jobs that were lost, not to mention all of the paper mills that were shut down as people moved away from using so much paper. As you see, jobs appear and disappear all the time. Why do you want people doing meaningless redundant jobs for the sake of their employment? That's just cruel.
Maybe we should bring back the lamplighter guild and get back to using horses. Gas lights and carriages created a lot of jobs that were rudely snuffed out.
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Vegans taste the best, because they are grass fed.
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For me, we primarily spent time bagging groceries until a decent number of wayward carts built up. Then we would collect them until there were only a few stragglers that weren't worth collecting by themselves and go back to bagging. Nowadays it would probably be gathering stuff for instacart orders instead.
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For profit housing tho is kinda bad don't you think? I'm not talking about one guy making a respectable living off running an apartment complex
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Problem with that is they'll charge even more and them the people never see that tax money
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I see Luigi isn't on the naughty list. Based Santa.
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If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don't trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.
In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.
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Right, you're using them as insurance. You give them money, they pool cash you literally can't get because the system is out to crush you, and on the off chance something goes wrong they take a small hit to their profiting from your suffering.
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It can cost much less than 50 cents
0.5 RON can be used, which are about 10 cents. You can also use fake plastic coins
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Don't forget how many apartment buildings are owned by corporate landlords though. Western Canada has a huuuge problem with the slumlord billionaires at Mainstreet and others.
The out-of-date data I can find has 35% of BC apartments as investor-owned.
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I guess that's likely the difference. With the big company owned apartments you usually deal with a super intendant or building manager instead of the landlord directly. So the renter is seen as a faceless number rather than an actual person to the owners you are paying money to. There's a lack of empathy towards the renter.
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Yeah, might just wanna remember that the people that clean up your mess aren't the same ones who put a coin lock on the cart.
Maybe you don't care, but your rage isn't really being channeled in a way that gets vengeance on the right people. It just hurts your working class allies.
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Maybe where you live you are an outlier and not representative of the average person behavior. At least where I leave there is no coin system and people leave carts all around. I suspect that is even worse than what I see because there are employees always gathering carts.
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Krampus should the entire US healthcare industry.
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poor landlords. they should just sell.
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The beauty of this is you'd be able to afford all of these if wages and housing costs were reasonable. The rich are the cause of both issues.
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In that example, yes it would.
I don't agree with your premise. When Tesco had more cart stations, I used them. I use them in Asda because they aren't far from the car, but when they remove stations to cut jobs, they are the ones being rude.
I'm not in the US. We never had gas station attendants. I guess fuel theft was never the same issue here as in the States.
It's very hard to use bank tellers. Many branches got shut down. It was never really a thing in my lifetime.
It's very easy to accept situations when you don't see it change. You accept it as fact. Young folk just accept you don't have data privacy because it never really existed in their life time.
Supermarkets automate things or put the work onto customers not to pass those savings on to customers, but to increase their margins at the cost of peoples jobs. Some folk are just fine with that.
Many would welcome automation if the gains and benefits were shared around. But it isn't. The rich get richer and the unemployment line grows. The media train folk to hate the unemployed, like it was their choice their job was removed.
If the only way to keep a fairer wealth distribribution is to keep folk in jobs, so be it. We don't have basic income or a 4 day week yet.
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Firstly, it isn't a few meters. Secondly, I think the term is disabled but hey, name calling isn't a new thing.
I'm not in the USA BTW.