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>that the cognoscenti proletariat should be empowered to confiscate all property and redistribute it as they wish

Or we could, you know, build some cheap housing.

Touche.

That's definitely not what the implication of the article is. Many would read this and think, well, we should just put the homeless people into those vacant homes!

> Many would read this and think, well, we should just put the homeless people into those vacant homes!

Decommodifying housing sounds like a good idea. People in the streets sounds like a bad idea

They're not in the streets just because housing costs money.

Maybe you're right, maybe they all just living in tents outside where they are completely ostracized from society and treated subhuman. Maybe they like not being able to do anything that requires an address to do. Maybe they like not having a consistent place to shower.

It's a ridiculous thing you've said.

Darn that Takings Clause...

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