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  1. Wealthy #plutocrat #landlord who enriches himself on the labour of others criticises workers (during a cost of living crisis & housing affordability crisis) for wanting to save money.

    Why is this news? Why hasn't the journalist asked some obvious questions to provide a little context for this bear-defecates-in-woods story?
    - how much does #Blackstone gain from leeching off the labour of their myriad tenants?
    - how much unpaid overtime and other forms of wage theft is facilitated by working from an office?
    - are workers more likely to fail to complete their contractual work while working from home, or is this "they don't work as hard" merely a euphemism for the extraction of unpaid extra work?
    - how much has the pandemic further shifted power away from workers and towards plutocrats?
    - what do the tenants from whom Blackstone extracts its billions think of working from home?
    - to what extent is Blackstone a significant contributor to the very housing/cost of living crises that are making the financial situation of workers ever more precarious?

    theguardian.com/business/2023/

    #MassMediaLiteracy #Guardian #neoliberalism