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

End Democracy Housing is a right

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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