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1) Exploit labor.

Might want to update your user name, Diogenes slept rough

Free market capitalism has never existed and will never exist.

The decommodification of housing is the only tenable solution.

The way I heard it best explained is no one would try to start a union if it made them less money.

Better pay and benefits - my maximum out of pocket was lower than most deductibles. Democratizes the workplace - really helps keep management in check. You get real job security - firing is much less arbitrary with a steward fighting for you.

However, if people aren't active in union elections, bargaining etc. it can get really stale really fast

Capitalism is just so absurd.

this is insanely ambitious, and in a weird order

De-commodify housing.

Something went horribly wrong when we started demanding never ending work weeks and 24/7 attention to work.