Ask HN: What was your first big realization after your first exp living alone?

Re:Ask HN: What was your first big realization after your fi... by MountainMan1312 on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:36AM (#37377441)

> With hindsight I should have moved out earlier because the parents did get alot of unpaid help from me by me still living at home, which is part of that one way older generational exploitation thats normalised in society.

I see it quite the opposite way.

Sure, there is an element of exploitation by the elderly, but that's nothing compared to the exploitation involved with nuclear families. It only benefits the parasitic capitalist ruling class, who have the money to speculate on all these houses everyone "has to" have.

And did you really do unpaid work, or were you just putting in your fair share of the work involved in living in a house? Children often see chores as "unpaid work" and act like their parents are using them as slaves, and that's just ridiculous.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your first big realization after your fi... by jvnnmfjvfjvflkj on Monday September 04, 2023 @06:41AM (#37379155)

Wait until you learn about the parasitic communist ruling class.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your first big realization after your fi... by MountainMan1312 on Monday September 04, 2023 @05:16PM (#37385162)

By definition communism has no ruling class. You must be thinking of Marxism, a.k.a. State Capitalism. It is capitalism because the state simply takes over the role of capitalist. I recommend looking into libertarian forms of communism like anarcho-communism. The "classic" introduction to anarchist communism is The Conquest of Bread [1], but that's a whole book. If you're looking for a quick introduction, I suggest Life Without Law [2].

- [1]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangl...

- [2]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangl...

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