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Over the past 40 years the West has fallen into a deep capitalist realism which completely erases the contingent nature of our economic system. Debt and propert
by danharaj 7y ago
Over the past 40 years the West has fallen into a deep capitalist realism which completely erases the contingent nature of our economic system. Debt and property are not basic facts of reality, they require stable, predictable economic relations. Those are all out the window right now.
It may be ideologically impossible for our governments, rentiers and financial institutions to acknowledge that the suspension of daily life means the suspension of business as usual.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI think it would make sense that if businesses are told to close then to tell the landlords that rent payments will also stop. It seems pretty fair. Same for people whole have lost their job. You could also suspend rent payments for them. This may cause pain to the landlords but it seems fair to share the pain.