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The entire framing of the issue as a false NIMBY/YIMBY dichotomy is a distraction from the reality that there is not and has never been a supply issue. The only issue is artificial demand from speculators who choose to withhold and deny a basic human right in the hope that it might magically raise in value for no reason instead of depreciate like every other asset.
oof. would pay maybe $300 for this, better luck next time
What the fuck are you talking about???
If you want to make a change in the world, then quit wielding your power and just voluntarily surrender it!
>I have much more sympathy for the like of service workers, factory workers, et.al. that lack the mobility of jobs that these people have.
I don't share or care about your guilty tech bro self-loathing. I will continue to make a half million dollars a year barely working while using my time and money to accomplish what political goals I see fit. Any serious activist should do the same. Don't fall for this bullshit narrative that you have to voluntarily live in poverty to be a populist.
>The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia.
Did you forget how one of the two major American political parties has become completely obsessed in the past 5 years with trying to make it illegal to teach the history of the genocides this country has perpetrated?
This is such a great comparison! Crypto and "financial services" are both a massive waste of labor that produces zero material wealth and mainly exist to facilitate money laundering and further upward siphoning of wealth.
This is why Janet Yellen is currently throwing a tantrum that those big meanies in China aren't playing fair by using their labor to actually manufacture things instead of shuffle fake money back and forth between different buckets until more money appears out of thin air: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/yellen-intends-warn-...
This is EXACTLY the issue. The economy is rigged such that in the absence of any positive action, workers' purchasing power goes down over time by default. This obviously isn't a problem for the rich, whose money is stored almost entirely in assets which by definition rise in value with inflation. Meanwhile, everyone else whose income comes primarily from a wage must constantly struggle for more concessions just to earn the same real amount they did last year.
Sounds like some really back breaking labor, was this during his 80 hour work weeks?
Socialism is when workplaces are owned and managed by the people who work there, rather than private investors. It has nothing to do with taxes, or welfare, or "the state" doing one thing or another -- that is a uniquely American conflation.
So he joined up with the British Empire just as it began carrying out a genocide in Bengal in 1943. The centrist brain is incredible