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Enkara wrote

Wait are you afraid of losing your mortgage? Why?

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chaos OP wrote (edited )

My point was that, once you've paid into it for a decade, have invested years of your life into paying for it, you might be less inclined to want to risk going to jail or losing your job because suddenly all those years of struggle were for nothing. I don't feel like that now, but I can see how a mortgage can deradicalize people.

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Enkara wrote

Ah I see...

Yeah I can relate to that feeling, having shit means being afraid of losing it and maybe feeling less inclined to do some fantastic rioting.

But there's still roles that are relatively safer and need people.

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MeowZedong wrote

Yes! I think it's really important to emphasise the existence of safer roles and how necessary they can be. Not everyone is able to go out and do some rioting, not just because of being afraid to lose their mortgage but because of stuff like disabilities or having to take care of kids or whatever.

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