The reason these areas are monetized is because wealth is inherited. This is not a meritocratic system. Business acumen is not hereditary. The only sure investment for the grossly incompetent is through exploitation. Limit inheritance to $100m max without any loopholes and you change the world.
Freeze all rent where it is now with legal forfeiture of unmaintained property to tenants when not maintained to standard. In a decade, housing will be affordable.
The halfwit rhetoric about workers not being competitive or wanting to work is propaganda garbage. The cost of living is due to corrupt mismanagement of banking, housing, and supply chains. The quality of life in a major Chinese city is far better than the USA. Propaganda focuses narratives about rural poverty in China when the exact same narrative is actually worse conditions in the USA in places like Mississippi, West Virginia, North Dakota, Wyoming, or New Mexico just to pick some random corners of low hanging fruit. There are around 700,000 feral subhuman primates roaming in the wild and disenfranchised, oppressed, and murdered by US core ethics, morals, politics, and culture.
Imbeciles claim this is some welfare state, when in reality there are many more feral humans than any time in the last few centuries. Those claiming it is a welfare state or those supporting that narrative never have balanced or researched sources. The spurious narrative is driven by mob-type populist stupidity.
No problems will ever get solved when people fail to adequately disconnect from the media vomit long enough to think for themselves and mull over their independent ethics to the point of actionable change.
Food for thought: normalizing fear as an accepted modality of population control was cemented by the invention of religion itself.
Kill your gods, kill your masters.
As an atheist, kindly shut up. Religion isn’t uniquely evil or anything. It’s like any other human institution, which means it’s susceptible to corruption and control.
When you talk about it like this, you’re not helping to deprogram anyone. You just look like a high and mighty ass.
Oh, hey chuckles. You’re an idiot. 🤣😚
Religion is uniquely controlling of peoples lives compared to any other human institution, which means that the consequences of corruption and control are much more severe.
The issue really comes down to religion being a freely used control mechanism that used to be a tool for governments to control people.
So however ethical your church or mosque or whatever is depends entirely on the pastor and their desires. Religious people are taught from a young age to never question their masters, and often confuse their pastor as their authority instead of god.
0.000000000315 %
2500 / 8,000,000,000 = 3.125 × 10^-7
That’s not even a rounding error. We would need to increase the supply of billionaires by a factor of 6 to even approach a rounding error.
Yeah … Not quite. The negative aspects of coordination problems are more general than just capitalism. Every system has a problem of getting stuff from the place it is to the people that need it, because convincing people to care is hard and verifying that someone needs it is harder.
If we could solve the coordination problem even approximately, we could run profitable businesses in capitalism that addressed many of the ills. The trouble is that we usually can’t (and sometimes the states will shoot people that try).
So, there’s an element of truth to this. Capitalist expansion and ecological neglect has been horrible for the planet and resulted in numerous health and environmental debacles.
But the track record of the Communists isn’t great on this front either. Blame Deng, blame Khruschev, blame Marx himself, but they all need to go through periods of industrial expansion - often at a rapid pace - which means dumping externalities out of expediency rather than calculating out the cost of development over much longer time horizons.
The policies are still coming from humans, working through enormous bureaucracies with imperfect information and selfish incentives. The need to improve the perceived quality of life in the moment can often exert pressure beyond that of long-term socio-economic consequences of a given policy.
Socialists and Communists can be more responsive than their Capitalist peers. But they aren’t required to be. You still need leaders willing to operate on generational and inter-generational timelines, when they likely won’t be alive to enjoy the bounty they’ve been asked to create.
Yeah… autocrats suck. I don’t want Mao. I want healthcare and solar panels.
Unfortunately, Cheng Kai-Shek wants Conservative Catholicism and coal fired power plants. Meanwhile, Tojo wants chattle slavery and genocide.
So, you’re going to need some help.
Could your whataboutism be more possibly obvious?
Like, did you try…not to try??
This was pathetic.
