• @AllonzeeLV
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    1 year ago

    If the American owner class has taught Americans paying any attention the last century anything about how they operate, it’s “Fuck the commons/planet/species/future, burn it all if it makes me a dollar slightly faster!”

    Profit in this case being all the corporate park land they own. Propagating human misery at every step for nothing more than to run up their capital ego score, that doesn’t even effect their living conditions at all.

    Good thing they don’t consider their victims, people without significant net worth, human.

    • AnonTwo
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      71 year ago

      Does it even make them any money if someone is inside the building? It seems more like justifying a purchase that didn’t pan out.

      • @AllonzeeLV
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        111 year ago

        It’s about holding value for them. Small/medium businesses paying rent in perpetuity to the corporate owners of business complexes. Yes, they’d rather others suffer and the planet burn if it means their capital investment is reaping dividends.

        That’s why we’re on the brink, it’s not like man made climate change hasn’t been known for half a century. Our owners only care about their capital scores. They destroyed our republic and captured our government that was supposed to regulate/check them for us to increase their capital scores. They’re destroying the climate and hobbling the species for generations to increase their capital scores.

        Why does everyone act surprised when our owner class acts like sociopaths? Thats why they’re in our owner class to begin with. Welcome to America, where practiced sociopathy gets you a corner office, and practiced prosocial vocations and empathy gets you a cardboard box on the sidewalk.

        https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

      • Baron Von J
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        31 year ago

        Your employer isn’t earning money by having you in the office. But they are losing money on the lease or mortgage for the property if you’re not in the office.

      • @[email protected]
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        Corporate real estate is over represented in investments, so the loss is through the stock market, not the company directly

        Edit: I actually don’t know if that’s true, but it’s the theory

        • Kichae
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          41 year ago

          While a lot of people work for big companies that may have commercial real estate holdings or are invested in REITs or something, most companies pulling workers back are not. And, indeed, they’re run by people that are choosing to pay for the privilege of lording their station over the hired help – though not to the employees, and many of them not purposefully.

          They’re just taking productivity hits while swearing up and down that we’re all lazy thieves who don’t do a thing all day while not in the panopticon.

      • eltimablo
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        21 year ago

        No, but it makes the cities where those buildings reside a boatload of tax revenue. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that a lot of the “return to office” propaganda was coming from local governments freaking out about the abrupt downturn in tax income from commuters.