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I live in New York and while walking through harlem though of a way werid way to describe TRUE Socialism vs. Today’s Capitalism: Buildings.

Say some of the rundown sh!thole buildings in harlem are Capitalist buildings and a Bronx or Brooklyn lofts are Socialist Buildings.

Socialist Building: Everyone in the building has a stake in the building and should worry about any and all repairs or issues that arise. Rent Prices are a base amount but rent increases can be determined on what shape the tenants keep the building in and how much landlord has had to spend on repairs/legal fees due to problem tenants. Should the building ever go coop — tenants would recieve a discount based on past contributions and the amount of time living in the building.

-Tenants buy plants to place in the hallways and lobbies — with their own money, yes everyone is allowed to look at the plants.
-Tenants respectfully ask each other to please clean up the laundry rooms and staircases — building never sees a mess in the hallways
-Tenants leave sign on the Roof Door asking all beer bottles and cigarette butts to be picked up after gethering on the roof – roof is always clean and presentable even though young people use it to party
-Tenants and Landlord take up a collection to add a new boiler which will help the Landlord provide 3 hours of heat a day instead of 2.
-Tenants and Landlord take the tenants contributions to the building into considerations before giving rent hikes every 2 years.
-Tenants play music at decent levels after 9pm – you do NOT have the ‘freedom’ to blast music at all hours — Building has ZERO Noise complaints every year.
-People make it a point to say hello even you walk by the person — no one is scared of each other, building feels safer.
-Everyone has privacy, no one has the right to enter your apartment simply because they put money into a ‘Renovation Fund’

Capitalist Building: Since we all pay rent, no one has the right to tell us anything. We do what we want, when we want and if it feels good, we’re going to do it in our apartment regardless of how it affects others. The fact that you worked hard for your rent money means you have complete freedom to do as you please once you walk in your apartment.

-No one decorates the hallways, MY purchases belong in MY apartment – empty delapidated hallways
-Hallways are painted when the landlord decides – Dirty hallways are painted every 3 years as per NY law.
-I pay rent so no one can tell me not to litter, that’s what the cleaning guy is for — Cleaning staff gets sick of filthy hallways and simply picks up potato chip bags and beer bottles leaving blankets of crusted dirt all over knowing it will show up again within 24 hours.
-I pay rent so I can play music as loud as I want – Police are called twice a month because someone is banging someone elses door down at 3am due to loud music — people start hating other, creating a ‘trapped’ feeling for tenants.
-I pay rent so I can smoke anything I want on the roof and no one can tell me sh!t — roof soon becomes filled with cigar tobacco, beer cans, urine and empty boxes of ez widers, this leads to the landloard placing a lock and alarm on the roof door.
-When the landlord takes up a collection for 2,000 dollars (around 50-75 dollars per tenant) to fix the boiler he’s met with “we pay rent, and the boiler wouldn’t even be mine — I’m not giving you money for a boiler to put in YOUR building” Boiler isn’t fixed and everyone complains about the Radiaters not getting hot enough.
-I pay rent with MY money so I can let my kids run a muck in the hallways using foul language and smoking whatever they want — if the noise goes into your apartment that’s YOUR problem. Remember I pay rent with MY money.
-Also when people of higher income start to leave the building due to it being a Sh!thole, the people of the Capitalist building tell the landlord to turn to the city for renovation funds then scream bloody murder when it takes more than 6 months.

Does this sound about right?