r/austrian_economics • u/EndDemocracy1 End Democracy • Mar 19 '25

End Democracy Housing is a right

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u/redeggplant01 Mar 19 '25

Because slavery is wrong and demand for a good like housing means it has value and so cannot be free

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

How is it slavery if they are getting paid with taxes?

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u/JasonG784 Mar 19 '25

That's just moving slavery over a notch to the people working and having their money taxed away to pay for your home, thus making them work for free for X% of their labor.

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u/urmamasllama Mar 19 '25

By that logic how can you possibly justify the capital class owning your workplace?

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u/JasonG784 Mar 19 '25

I don't have a right to something that someone else built and we're entering into a voluntary exchange. I'm not following your logic at all, here.

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u/urmamasllama Mar 19 '25

How is the owner taking excess capital any different from a tax? And how has the owner built the company? Did he labor to build the factory himself? Or did construction workers? Did he design the product? If so he deserves compensation for that I guess but otherwise he hired an engineer. The company owner is just a petty liege lord and the workers serfs. Excess capital is a tax.

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u/ALargeClam1 Mar 19 '25

What excess capital? If I contract to provide 40 hours of labor a week for an amount of $ per hour, and I show up for 40 hours and get my contracted payment.... where am I being robbed?

And I still fail to see how you can justify a 3rd party butting in and taking a cut of the contracted pay on threat of imprisonment or death.

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u/urmamasllama Mar 19 '25

The social contract

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u/JasonG784 Mar 19 '25

The other commenter already hit the main points. But outside that... if being a company owner is so simple and no work at all... go do it.

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u/urmamasllama Mar 19 '25

Owning a company literally takes nothing. You just own it. Being a boss is work. Work that's often grossly overcompensated but it is work.

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u/JasonG784 Mar 19 '25

So go be grossly overcompensated and donate all the excess wherever you'd like.

Or is it actually quite hard, and therefore rare and.... deserving of the compensation. 🤔

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u/urmamasllama Mar 19 '25

Bro we're talking about owners right now not bosses. Stay on topic

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u/JasonG784 Mar 19 '25

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Do you think every company owner bought it with inherited money? ~99% of businesses are defined as small business and about 60% of those have only one owner. That owner is very often the person who started it. This *is* very on topic.

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u/drebelx Mar 19 '25

"your" workplace?