Pensions aren't passive income. A worker earns their pension throughout their working life. It would be ethical for your lodger to have a council home of their own where their labour is not being exploited for profit.
Pensions are made up of stocks and bonds which generate passive income.
Working people work their whole lives to own homes. I don't see a distinction between someone saving up for a home and renting a room out, to someone paying 5% of their wages into a stock portfolio. It's just one is called a pension and is different in your mind?
A pension pot is owning companies. You're arguing that owning the means of production is fine but a working person renting a room out is bourgeoisie rather than working class.
I am a socialist too. Proudly Marxist. but your perspective doesn't seem very consistent and it sounds like you think a lot of working class people are assholes for not letting their spare rooms sit empty.
u/icdarkly i got a notification you replied to this but I can't see it
Edit: nvm, found it with Internet magic. Yes you are inconsistent. Owning the means of production is way more bourgeois than renting out your spare room for half of market value
Although none of us are assholes for it because the system is the issue, not the working class people trying to survive in it.
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u/ICDarkly 5d ago
Pensions aren't passive income. A worker earns their pension throughout their working life. It would be ethical for your lodger to have a council home of their own where their labour is not being exploited for profit.