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It’s a fucking crime how older generations are pulling up the ladder behind them.

It works since these egotistical morons are democratically in a majority.

Gonna be interesting to see how this shit develops when it hits the fan.

If a democratic minority is demanding power based on land, how are we not gonna be in a feudal society?

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I was at a party where the topic of discussion was that: You should only be able to vote if you own land. It was a pool party, of all things, and I contemplated slowly submerging into the water and just staying there until I drowned.

This is the exact rules for voting when women and slaves were disenfranchised.

At its core, America has not changed one bit since.

The most important point in this context is that non land-owning or poor white men were also disenfranchised.

Yep. I was not talking about racism. I'm talking fundamentally about systemic disenfranchisement that hasn't changed even today.

As an anarchist, I do wonder when peoples worship for democracy will come to an end. It's things like this that I hope will finally do it. Who cares if a majority wants something, the question is, what is right and just.

The problem is that the alternative isn't sustainable. Sure, we can solve the problem for one generation by building enough small apartments to accommodate the current demand. Except once the demand picks up due to the population growth and immigration, the problem will return. So what do we do next? Communal apartments with one room per family? Some sort of dormitories with "hotbedding" for everyone?

Given the massive inequality in the population density and cost of living, looking into remote work or starting your own business in a lower CoL area could be a much better alternative to demanding someone else to drastically lower their living standard.

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