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    10 months ago

    it raises the productivity requirements of the business to exist without actually returning any of the same money to the pockets of workers. Its similar to your boss owning your apartment and billing you for rent. You work harder, make less money and your boss makes more.

    Its why there should be limits on the creation of shell companies and real estate trusts.

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      it raises the productivity requirements of the business to exist

      I don’t understand what this means? You mean the business has to make more money to pay the rent? Why would that obligation be necessary to “increase productivity requirements?”.

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        yes the business has to sell more product to rent a place than buy it, generally. This is why venture capital often does exactly this when they buy a corporation - they seperate all the real estate to a shell company and raise rents, which lowers profits for the original company forcing managers to try to extract more from workers to maintain profits and prevent closures.

        I want to say this is exactly what happened to albertsons and the cut that gets made is a reduction in wage increases.

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          which lowers profits for the original company forcing managers to try to extract more from workers to maintain profits and prevent closures.

          That makes no sense. Why would you fabricate running costs of a business that the employees or managers will never see or care about?

          If they sold these properties and these costs suddenly disappeared, are managers going to suddenly allow their employees to slack off because they “don’t need” that much money? No. There’s no such thing as “enough money” in a corporate environment.

          This sounds a whole lot like a made-up conspiracy theory.