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[–]Optimus85 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

And this is where capitalism fails. Treating basic needs such as housing like a commercial commodity and determining its value based on the laws of the market(supply and demand, inflation, speculation, emerging markets, etc.) completely disregards the human factor. I am not advocating communism as it stifles innovation, competition, entrepreneurship and certain freedoms(communism however does not equal totalitarianism) but a little bit more socialism wouldn't hurt. If you don't mind being branded a "commie" by those conflating communism with socialism. But I digress, this world is FUCKED!

[–]IsraelDid911 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Our central bank system failed, which is a communist system. Our open border system failed, which decreases wages by keeping the supply of labor too high.

[–]Yayme 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What is your answer? Abolish private property and take people's homes and give them to the poor? You people always talk about how we have more vacant homes than we have homeless, and how we should take them. You know most of those homes are in places like Flint Michigan, right? You want to move all the homeless to places that are already experiencing a blight.

Or, we could build government housing, and provide that. Like we did with the housing projects. That turned out great too, right? Put all the poor people in one district, so they get zero money in taxes for the public school system or police or libraries, or even grocery stores with fresh food.

Pretty much everything the government runs is bloated, corrupt, and mismanaged. I'd prefer not to let them get their hooks in to housing.

If you want to suggest raising the minimum wage, I'm all for that. But lets go ahead an avoid communism. For everyone's sake.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OR we could make the international banking cartel work FOR us, rather than basically force us into their contracts by indebting the authority of the land into their contracts.