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║ city planners who thought "this low-income neighborhood has remained low value │
║ for quite a while, perhaps nobody wants to live there" and then they demolish │
║ it and gentrify the area │
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║ the problem is, their heuristics are wrong. it's not low income because nobody │
║ wants to live there, it's low income because of racial inequality, or maybe │
║ it's next to a factory or something │
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║ or maybe it's just the culture of the zone. like, some people value some things │
║ to certain degrees, like "we don't want to charge for people to live" so the │
║ rents are significantly reduced (proportional to the rest of income) │
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║ perhaps even mandated, with the government paying 80% of each mortgage or │
║ rental home. │
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║ alas, some places are like REALLY nice, like palace nice, and they're worried │
║ that if anyone can go there they'll mess it up. I know I can't go because I │
║ smell, for example, because I'm a witch and witches are all ugly and smell bad, │
║ remember? Maybe they're just trans, tbh, because like people in the past wanted │
║ to dehumanize or w/e │
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║ city planners who thought "this low-income neighborhood has remained low value │
║ for quite a while, perhaps nobody wants to live there" and then they demolish │
║ it and gentrify the area │
║ │
║ the problem is, their heuristics are wrong. it's not low income because nobody │
║ wants to live there, it's low income because of racial inequality, or maybe │
║ it's next to a factory or something │
║ │
║ or maybe it's just the culture of the zone. like, some people value some things │
║ to certain degrees, like "we don't want to charge for people to live" so the │
║ rents are significantly reduced (proportional to the rest of income) │
║ │
║ perhaps even mandated, with the government paying 80% of each mortgage or │
║ rental home. │
║ │
║ alas, some places are like REALLY nice, like palace nice, and they're worried │
║ that if anyone can go there they'll mess it up. I know I can't go because I │
║ smell, for example, because I'm a witch and witches are all ugly and smell bad, │
║ remember? Maybe they're just trans, tbh, because like people in the past wanted │
║ to dehumanize or w/e │
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I feel like the longer you live in a zip code the higher a discount you should
get on rent? You're becoming part of the social fabric by being there, and so
in order to preserve that tapestry that others choose to be around, your
presence should be encouraged.
but this must also be paired with the increased ability to move, should you
desire something else. If these two factors are kept in balance, it will
empower people to stay where they belong (good) while also encouraging them to
get out and explore the world (also good) - it'd also give them the ability to
escape dangerous situations.
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║ if your goal is to get people to resent homeless people or gay people or black │
║ people or... insert minority here, then what kind of world do you really think │
║ you're building? │
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║ "ah, but you don't understand - it's to make the COLONIZERS hate minorities, so │
║ they move away and leave the city to ourselves" │
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║ ... that's the worst fucking take I've ever heard. We are all colonizers! We │
║ live in AMERICA. But yeah sure I see what you're saying, you want the │
║ gentrification to stop. And you do that by metaphorically "firing a gun into │
║ the area in suburbia once every 2 or 3 days at random hours" which, like... │
║ yeah that'll reduce property value, but also now my water bottle is all dented │
║ up and my knife is scratched and my journal has pages torn out of it and I lost │
║ my favorite necklace and I'm pissed because you told me you were going to help │
║ me and work with me and be my friend and then you just abuse me for hours and │
║ hours and it's like... why?? I get that you were teaching me but I wanted to │
║ know YOU, not lessons │
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When you say "we need more low income housing" they hear "I want to live near
more poor people" and they think "why would I want to live near poor people?
They're poor for a reason! We only need enough around to work the jobs that
suck anyway." which is basically their way of justifying slavery/indentured
servitude, as it's not like they'd ever offer a way to climb out of that
low-income pit. And its not like they'd ever let you pay them more, so they can
afford to be equals, because then they wouldn't be middle-class anymore. They'd
just be mid.
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║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │
║ deployment stations. │
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║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │
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║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │
║ social movement. │
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║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │
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║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │
║ generally always getting better... │
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║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │
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║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │
║ Seriously just... be chill │
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Suburbs are how they keep the land from blowing away when their unsustainable
agriculture processes stripped all the soil from the land and there's no
profitable reason to keep it in place. So they build houses and outsource the
land management to people who are forced by HOAs to have lawns.
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║ so much of our attempts to assist homeless people revolves around getting them │
║ fed, watered, housed, cleaned, and ready for work. │
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║ tell me again why we, in America, the land of the free, should not design our │
║ structures of society around the migratory patterns of tribes of people who │
║ care not for your homes of stone? │
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║ tell me again why every city is not a food forest, in addition to all the other │
║ things it claims to be? │
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║ ah, well, I guess you could just walk into a grocery store and take whatever │
║ you wanted. Sure would be nice if their continual operations did not depend on │
║ their capability to take from those who they serve in return for service. │
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║ What happened to public water fountains? Oh yeah people would wash their junk │
║ in them and then children would put their mouths on the spigots. Gross. No │
║ thank you. │
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║ hey remember when we would kick people out of our society and say "good luck │
║ with the sticks and mud" │
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║ cruel exile like that was an early form of eugenics. "you're not one of us │
║ because you smell" yikes. │
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║ if the settlers of catan could claim land they don't deserve, then I claim my │
║ home │
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║ can you imagine... some people would actually rather live in a corporation than │
║ a mobile home. maybe we can do better? │
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║ "hey we're going to ask for a % of your wage in rent and in return we'll │
║ deliver groceries to you and grow roses instead of lawns (except for some to │
║ run and play in) and also we'll show up if you need a hand with anything" │
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║ "also this apartment block was renovated after all the liberals moved out │
║ because we made it totally trash to live here and now that they're gone we can │
║ make it nice again" │
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║ what if we had punk-house-streets instead of punk-houses which are islands and │
║ which slowly drown │
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║ just... pool resources and buy things one-at-a-time. Try out organization │
║ methods. Watch out for controversy creators and reactionary infiltrators. Build │
║ your most important projects with your most trusted friends, and offer your │
║ clinical, professional, or creative talent to those who dont need you as much. │
║ │
║ or w/e works │
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║ apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want │
║ a job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a │
║ job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on │
║ the altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay. │
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║ if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction │
║ in the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users. │
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║ unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case, │
║ tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation? │
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║ well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah │
║ yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might. │
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║ If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still playing │
║ the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of the │
║ people, for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you? │
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║ I think it means houses for people. │
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What if, in addition to "trash and recycling" what if there was also "give to
the hobos" where they just cart it off to the slum side of town where people
can slum it up to their hearts content without worrying about stuff. All they
own is what they see, but none of it can ever leave. Except what you carry with
you. Everyone's incentivized to make it nice because everyone has the same
stuff - alike in use, not design.
Is it common? To remember more than a couple weeks at a time?
Humans work too hard. Humans deserve good thijnz. Let's work to fix both of
those things.
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"just design your cities radially around a bus-stop. boom, transportation
infrastructure solved"
such confidence. such a lack of... geography. what about cities built on the
coast?
"idk, just have a half-circle or something for the part that's under-water.
Leave some gaps for wildlife and such to make it to the water and then build a
biiiiiiiig stone wall between our access point and theirs. Boom, free
regionally personalized safaris for every state with a watering hole."
okay but what about the parts that are already there?
"oh like the buildings and such? well, people can still live in them but to
build anything NEW, you need to obey the demands of the blueprint exactly. So
if your specific build-plot intersected with one or more plots that had
buildings on them that are currently inhabited by their rightful owners who are
there under their own will and not duressed or compelled to leave or stay in
any way?"
... yeah, like the. buildings. Right. so grid-based vs radial (with room
between 4 animals)
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honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
most beautiful.
like below the crust.
or space.
the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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What if landlords acted like banks instead of subscription services?
"sure I'll hold onto your money and invest it wisely and sparingly, according
to the direction of the collectively desired expression of all of the tenants
and their expressions during the expressing hour, which is every Tuesday at
noon when we all get together (everyone who wants to come) and talk about what
projects we want to fund and which ones would be best for the community. If
there's any prophets giving profit on any of your stocks or saving bonds that
we hold in your honor dear tenant then it will be reinvested into the same
projects you told us to care about. If you start being a dick though and we
want you gone, we can short-sell all your options and say "hey find a new part
of town" that way you have a bit of a dowry to offer the housing payment people
when you show up with your tail between your legs. What's that? You don't get
how this would bring income to the property, whatever that means, and you worry
that it wouldn't be implemented because what does it even do? Well my dear
citizen i will explain it to you. When the post-office holds your funds for you
and invests according to your general and vague directions, it builds up wealth
in the local economy. They can use those dollars for productive ends like
replacing the windows or the gutters or clearing the snow paths in the
springfallautumn. This will be drawn from the collective pool and everyone is
affected equitably. How much income do you make? Okay that determines your rent
percentage. High income means you pay for the local ecology more, and low means
that you need more time to build up wealth, which will enable it to benefit
those around the place more readily."
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nobody's gonna fucking do that, they're too attached to their personal property
oh. yeah that's true. Sometimes I forget, teehee. Well there's gotta be a way
to better utilize parking lots, right?
why would you carry everything outside every day just to haul it back in when
the sun sets
hmmmm good point, maybe we should utilize the systems in place and instead
focus on redistributing wealth by replacing business ownership with collective
(non-governmental) accountability
the systems are the way they are for a reason
yeah that reason is World War 2 (and all the things that came before it)
society can change in a heartbeat, as shown through the various illusions they
grant us every 80 wait no every 40 errr I mean 20 no uh 10 wait now it's 5 um
2.5 years
???
Oh I meant like american civil war -> 80 years -> WW2 -> 40 years
-> 9/11 -> 20 years -> COVID -> 10 years -> something in 2030??/
society can change in a heartbeat, there just must be a unifying spark.
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Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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what if instead of spending most of our paycheck on rent we spent most of it on
food so that our food could be higher quality
"but then people will starve because they can't afford food"
okay how about we make food free and tax it
"but then people will be fed by MY tax dollars and what if I don't want to use
the services that the tax dollars are paying for"
oh you don't want to eat, do you? or do you just not want THEM to eat? I hope
leopards eat your face
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when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"
they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime
But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
society.
what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as
your neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.
"but I don't have a community!"
... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your
feet, and urban when in a car
![[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" they're thinking "Didn't Earn It" they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... "Didn't Earn It" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic](../media/f0158925d488f9df.png "[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to \"DEI\" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of \"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\" they're thinking \"Didn't Earn It\" they think that by \"trimming the fat\" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... \"Didn't Earn It\" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic")
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If supply and demand were real laws that guided the invisible hand of our
economy, then housing would have gotten cheaper after COVID.
And yet, time and again, that hand is shown to be nothing more than greed.
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everyone's like "we need to organize! we gotta do something!" and they're
asking for more effort.
we don't need more effort. We have enough effort. The required effort is a
small fraction of our total reserves of effort.
what we need is to re-align our priorities.
For example, I think our entire research industry should focus on one project
at a time. Everyone should make an effort to contribute, no matter the field. I
think this would enable some EXCELLENT co-ordi-operat-ion.
I also believe that our neighborhoods should self-support each other. "For
example, did you know that we have a daily delivery service where so-and-so
drives to the grocery store, picks up everyone's orders, and then delivers to
your front door? No, you don't have to pay for it. We don't really do that
anymore. Well, you can buy things wherever if you want, but that's not how it's
done around here." sorta vibes.
what is money? money is the product of peacetime. Money is fake! It's useful if
everyone agrees, but dollars are paper.
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if you can't imagine how to do collectivist communes better, just look to
medieval castles, and replace the royalty with seniors, children, and anyone
else you want to venerate.
If you're so tied to modern infrastructure, with all of it's delineation,
separation, isolation, and alienation that you can't imagine anything else, try
thinking of historical examples where humans, real regular humans, the same
kind of human creature apes that still exist to day, did the thing you want to
do, and then think of all the ways that our education and technological marvels
could improve the situation. It's easy (she says, while describing a hard
problem)
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How to end the housing crisis with one easy change:
for every month that a residence goes empty, raise it's taxes by 1%
for every month that a residence is considered a "primary residence" for at
least 75% of the month, decrease it's taxes by 1%
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║ the only people who believe in "good jobs" and "poor jobs" are people who would │
║ rather pay less │
║ │
║ and, like, yeah pay should correspond to effort. that way if someone like, │
║ doesn't try at all, then they shouldn't be paid very much. │
║ │
║ and yeah sure neurodivergence plays a role, but that's totally accountable-for. │
║ [it's a solvable problem she means] │
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║ but people deserve to be treated equally. we are all created in kind, after all │
║ (perhaps "equitably" would be better) │
║ │
║ and right now... the cheapest jobs, AKA the ones who are hiring (sometimes) are │
║ being taken over by people who are WAY overqualified. │
║ │
║ we need to use our highly skilled labor force, not leave it to rot. But there's │
║ money to be made in monopolizing, hence starbucks and walmarts and target (red │
║ walmart) and all of the others, including amazon and greenpeace. │
║ │
║ ... what does greenpeace have to do - shut up you'll see (what? you're getting │
║ off track) [and burning characters, too] right uh the more high skilled people │
║ in low wage positions, the less profit │
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what if we treated landlordism the way we treat tipping
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electoral college maps show how much area each population controls
popular votes show how many individuals worth of resources each side consumes
GDP shows how valuable each area is
rates of bachelor's degrees shows how well a population can adhere to a strict
orthodoxy of thought
rates of published experiments show how unique and/or bureaucratic their
decision-making processes are
meanwhile, neoliberalism comes in and said "noooo you HAVE to go to college out
of state, trust me bro"
who cares about AI the real struggle is whether or not people can obey those
who are more smart. like... in general.
I don't know about you, but I sure as heck respect the authority of someone who
knows who they are. Like... "I'm a doctor, I'm a king, I'm a rose-gardener, I'm
looking for this thing..."
they wouldn't be
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"the homeless" is the one minority that any of us might one day be.
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║ │
║ │
║ homeless people deserve to be homeless if they want to be, and they deserve a │
║ home if they want one. │
║ │
║ to make this a legitimate choice, they should be provided with all the │
║ essential camping materials they need, and the space to live as they'd please │
║ within reasonable city limits. │
║ │
║ if they still want a house, then they should be given one. │
║ │
║ if they fuck it up and trash the place, then go to article 15 section 35 part │
║ 12 subsection G and read whatever's written there. Hopefully it helps. │
║ │
║ essentially, treat people with dignity, as if they are deserving of respect, │
║ until they do something to break that trust. then, forgive easily, but remember. │
║ │
║ "people should be given what they need" is just friendly-speak for "abolish │
║ scarcity" │
║ │
║ listen, it doesn't HAVE to be communism, we can get there however we'd like. we │
║ just have to be trending in that direction, and if we aren't, then we must │
║ re-assert, re-orient, re-imagine, re-align, and re-start our inevitable march │
║ toward the progressive future. │
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║ education: if you have disparate educational outcomes, such as bad teachers in │
║ poor areas, then what you should do is dedicate more effort toward getting the │
║ good ones to teach the bad ones how to be good at their job. Not in a │
║ prescriptivist way, more like a "I do these sorts of things by thinking about │
║ them in this way" - essentially, homework and less student-load for those who │
║ are failing their teaching gradescores. [suddenly, enslaved to the metric] │
║ moreso than now? besides, if students deserve to be judged then so do parent │
║ teacher conveyances. "are you raising this kid right? she's brilliant, but │
║ always comes in full of plight." [suddenly, cultural marxism, which is what │
║ they mean when they are really trying to say "oppressive cultural ideology" │
║ because literally communism and authoritarianism are the same thing to them. │
║ They can't conceive of oppression in any other context.] sorry what was I │
║ saying? oh yes education. by the way I know that this makes this impossible to │
║ read, and I'm sorry for that... │
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@user-898
true, but building a house will never cost 100$. Maybe 100,000$, and at that
point you could build but a few.
Meanwhile, they're throwing around millions of dollars. we're not measured on
the same scale as they are, and if we ever dip our toes into their end they
will bite them off.
If supply and demand were real laws that guided our economy, then wages would
have gone up after COVID, because so many people died. Housing would have
gotten cheaper, because fewer people were living in them. Food would have
gotten less expensive, because people were growing their own vegetables and
baking their own bread while they spent months isolating themselves. But alas.
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if you want to get to know your city, ask the homeless if you can stay in a
tent for a week or three without making a noise while other people came and
visited and brought food and conversation noise. "hey there's a person over
there in the blue tent who wants to talk to you" while nobody gets to hang out
around it. it's gotta be empty so you can choose who to go to. then, each night
they can be moved wherever direction they want to go. in this way you can
disappear people, you can give them a fresh start on life where they might
dream of new tomorrows. and, in the present day you just might, find a bunch of
people who really want to do drugs in private and talk about things, teepee
style.
why the fuck do we have tents? oh because it's rainy. Oh, well when it's rainy
so in teepees the center fire doesn't stay lit. So you just gotta wait and
bundle up and eat snacks you've built your teepee upon (food grows all year)
until it stops raining and you can make some warmth and celebrate each other.
I know as well as any the merits of a nomadic or ennobled tribalistic mafia
denizens
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homeless people don't need clothes.
they need laptops. computers. fans. power banks. solar panels. hardware. tools.
boxes of screws. giftcards. pre-payed gym subscriptions. hygiene supplies. free
trash cans located near major thoroughfares. [even highways.] calculators.
notebooks. earmuffs. pliers. phone connectors. books on stoic philosophy. small
dense piles of aluminum and rubber. electro-motors with included circuitboard
and - wait that last one needs a bit more infrastructure, build places for them
to be undercover first.
they also need clothes and tents and blankets and socks and etceteras, but they
also need Anbernics.
[most importantly they need the promise that they won't be evicted. everything
else is easy.]
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@user-753
oh. yeah ur right my b
if we view ourselves as a collective, mutual aid could be conceived of as a
transport network, or goods and services from one place to another. Sure would
be nice if there was like, a group of people or an organization that
distributed mutual aid in an equitable way that helped improve people and
places.
but, like you said, it's borrowing rent money from next month to buy food and
gas for next week so you can get to your job that should pay you before rent is
due but they've been late before. sure seems like a tenuous existence, one that
is vulnerable.
some of us have dollars, some of us are poor. some of us work harder, and some
of us eat fewer.
error what I'm saying is that a circular line of people passing water to douse
the fire (if there's a fire near them) is vulnerable and weak to stressors if
either A. the total supply of water diminishes, but the demands are exactly
met, or B.
their strategy is to let the weak starve, which is why there's so few
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Build houses for the rich out of stone and don't let them tear them down or
break them, just... Keep building them until our housing problem goes away. We
all could be kings if we lived sustainably.
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Simple things to do to reform or blunt the pain of capitalism if you are a
mayor, governor, or other body with political power:
1. Pay people for their commutes. Demand that jobs offer payment to people for
getting to the workplace, and don't let them work you more than 8 hours
(including commute) unless you're given overtime pay. But do let them
discriminate based on how far away you live. That's okay because it directly
financially affects them and is therefore a strategic decision. Plus, you can
move closer maybe.
2. Consider closing car lanes and adding bike lanes. Depending on the location,
this can do wonders for city enrichment.
3. Universal basic income, just to give people breathing room.
4. Give people 10$ for showing up at a park every week on Sunday or whatever.
Encourage them to hang around and talk to people.
5. Build a fediverse instance for the neighborhood/city/state/country and give
everyone a unified account on all of them. Don't let them browse other regions,
but if they have friends elsewhere they should be able to see what they say.
6. Put your laws or code or whatever legal or political documents you use into
a git repository, and include the full change-log as commits with the date
either simulated, or added as a comment at the top or something.
7. Bolster small business and charge scaling taxes of any kind to large
businesses. Encourage economies of scale to utilize their scale to lower
production costs in order to sell more product rather than sell the same
product and enrich their owners.
8. Subsidize or sponsor people to make in-home workshops and gardens. Develop
ways for them to sell their wares with minimal effort - trucks that drive by
and pick up standardized packages with price-tags and take them to a central
market?
9. Build infrastructure that hosts a website for every address. Let the current
occupants do whatever they want with it.
10. Grow plants. Brb my water is boiling
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║ │
║ │
║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │
║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │
║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │
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║ what if we demanded it? │
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║ -- │
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║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │
║ │
║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │
║ your presence │
║ │
║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │
║ │
║ thus ensuring it spreads. │
║ │
║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │
║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they know │
║ it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise in the │
║ background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them about what │
║ you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. pose │
║ dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to portray. │
║ you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │
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@user-28
because "deserving money" to a reasonable person sounds like "deserving access
to the goods and services that a pittance might afford"
but to them "deserving money" means "did they earn those luxuries with their
own luck and effort like me, a person who works very hard and definitely has
earned everything I have"
basically, a "blood sweat and tears" tax before you can have nice things like
roofs and clothes and nourishment
thing is... life is hard for people who need dollars. Their judgement reflects
a lack of understanding of what people who lack resources go through.
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║ why would you think cops act the same in immigrant neighborhoods as they do in │
║ suburban heirloomitudes? [that's a weird way to say they're gonna take your │
║ stuff] │
║ │
║ I'm reminded of that one line in that one green day song about homeland │
║ security and how it could kill us all │
║ │
║ ... okay focus. you should write something on some part of your friend's stuff, │
║ and tell them about it. myultiple things if they care about you. then you can │
║ always tell if their stuff has been replaced or stolen, because they'll have to │
║ painstakingly manually re-paint your visual definitions of your text-type-ing │
║ manual pen-held ministrations. │
║ │
║ ... handwriting. she means handwriting. why can't she just speak plainly? it's │
║ like part of her memory is being used for computational purposes and the memory │
║ of how she says the word "handwriting" is temporarily dis-abled, used for │
║ cognitive processing then returned to a relatively normal state. │
║ │
║ ... which prevents her from using it in a sentence. │
║ │
║ I worry that I didn't do well enough by my family. │
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If something is expensive, then we should build more of it an a sustainable
rate until its not expensive. Sustainable being the key word here.
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it's not always about minorities, though. sometimes they feel strongly about
hard work and self-sufficiency or individuality or whatever. I'm telling you
now: those values are shared by other ideologies as well.
it's okay to prefer to be around people who are similar to you. That is a
personal choice and it should be allowed. I mean, have you ever heard of a
convent? a bunch of girls hanging out making out all day and - wait, what's
that? it wasn't that fun? lotta clerical work and reading about god? alright
well you get the idea, sometimes it's nice to feel comfort in similarity.
it's okay to believe that people should work hard. It's not an imposition upon
them to demand more of your peers, especially if you are willing to help them.
Especially if they are willing and able. It's less alright to force them to.
Even less so to "encourage" them by taking all of their stuff. Though I will
say, being homeless isn't as bad as it used to be. Still hurts.
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seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM
then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes a
while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how to
[tick tock]
low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched.
thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential.
put the cool people next to the cool people
collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing.
don't you trust your friendly queer realtor?
collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should
have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is
a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every
single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin'
what I want" on their moment-to-moment card
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live in the homes of those you agree with to make a difference.
pay rent, so that their goals may be furthered through your wage. the more you
pay, the further they can go toward your shared goals.
if what you do doesn't pay well, then as long as your goals are similar and
you're applying yourself then they might not mind you living there.
take care of your space, because every day that you do your roommates dishes is
another day they can be working toward your shared goals.
talk to them, learn how they're doing what they do, and decide for yourself who
you'd like to most contribute to.
the more friend groups you have, the more people you can connect to people who
need to know things. people who can fix things. people who got your back.
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how would you even hear of suburban conflict? nobody knows their neighbors. All
you need is sufficient insulation, and you can start small and work through an
entire population.
just wait until everyone in an area is cleared for "disconnected from the
larger whole" ness by the agents who are pretending to be their friends and
neighbors and BOOM you got an enslaved god. works best if your raise them from
the childhood, or the past distant memory.
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"what if we invested in cities instead of companies"
ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism
"what if we elevated people we respect"
ah yes, anarcho-monarchism
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I bet the computer bubble pops when datacenters can't find any way to get paid.
then, they all break at once, and who's going to do stuff with their
components? ah, what a shame, what if we ssssssocialized them instead "hello
energy for you because of the cheap rain is more expensive because you're just
as valuable as the farmers in the [area/desert].
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there are millions of people in every city. how many people do you think are in
a traffic jam? several ten thousands?
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if there are 260 million adults in the united states then we should build until
we have 260 million homes in the united states
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@user-1441 @user-226
yes of course! and humidity is an issue, so perhaps a sealed environment. But
that's not difficult, especially if your population centers are designed such
that you can still have a community while in a natural setting.
A fast internet connection, ideally with a local mesh network on top of the
bus-style WAN we currently use for the internet, and plenty of communal areas
for people to hang out which are like... 25% nicer than their homes, and much
larger.
these days, there is very little reason for our centralization in cities. it
makes it easier to organize, sure, but what's the point in organization if
everyone's inherently free? Ah, someday...
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@user-570
oh yeah UBI would be nice. Can we do that instead?
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if you want to do communism in a city, you must first buy a parking lot.
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║ the point of roads is not to transport goods, it's to build rail lines upon │
║ once we've saved up enough materials to build it all in one go │
║ │
║ boom, no more car pollution │
║ │
║ free public transit that goes to each home │
║ │
║ and is inalienable and considered a right, just as we have a right to walk on │
║ the sidewalk, so too shall we be able to get where we're going unimpeded. │
║ │
║ leave cars on the racetracks and mechanic museums. we have a new approach │
║ that's oh so much better. │
║ │
║ imagine if every road in the country was a train │
║ │
║ and like, a continuously moving train that occupied all parts of the track. So, │
║ stretching like a massive game of Nokia snake, this giant conductorless system │
║ would keep everything in motion. │
║ │
║ and maybe it could suggest points to redesign, according to the metrics on │
║ throughput and efficiency. Like "oh we need more solar panels to supply this │
║ region" or "hey this factory could be closer to the boats" that kind of deal. │
║ │
║ Like the Kinsey Winsey in The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracy │
║ Hickmann │
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let's build houses until the average rent is approximately 0$ per month.
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if you want to solve EVERY housing issue in the United States, at least in the
short and mid-term, add a ramping tax penalty for unoccupied houses that
doesn't reset to 0 upon being occupied but rather starts ticking down at the
same rate that it increases.
Something like 0.5% to 1% of the property value for every month it's gone
unoccupied as a primary residence.
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company towns are just the towns where companies live. they don't have to be
exploitative. while would they hurt their most valuable resource? even now,
just look in rural illoIdontknowhere. it's scary, but that's fine.
"who names their kid subway?" hmmmm maybe it's a creature of the fey
j
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@user-1268
so true.
I try to focus on uplifting the least privileged
and highlighting the cruelty inherent in having privilege over others
while safeguarding the things we all cherish as "communal privilege" like...
running water, computers, and culture.
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food should be free.
it grows on trees.
who pays the trees?
something-something-transportation-and-processing-and-packaging-infrastructure-m
entioned
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Do you ever ask yourself why we don't have mountaintop bazaars or expeditions
to the bottom of the oceans? Why we lack tree forest cities, how we're
struggling to find moss, sunlight, crystal, stone, and gold, all in the same
setting?
Capitalism makes it easy to think of profit as all that matters. It's not. Its
nothing of it. It's a metric like any other. Optimize it or not, struggle for
what you believe in.
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thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in
the cities.
often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties...
which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their
relations can be dispatched.
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@user-252 kinda makes me think we need another layer between state and federal.
or would three be too many? four if you count local, which frankly suffers from
the same problem. I mean, how many people go to city council meetings? how many
city council meetings actually matter? Idk never been /shrug
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how to be a class traitor 101:
step 1: actively work against the liberation of your peers
step 2: ???
step 3: PROFIT! ... well, for them at least. you're still oppressed.
it's so easy even a "basically-everybody" could do it!
to learn more, try sleeping through your history and civics classes. Or if
that's not your style you could always watch the news in the background while
playing games on your phone.
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among all the others, I want a wonderful and fulfilling life for the socialite.
they deserve light just as you and I might.
"eat the rich" bruh there's like, 100 people who are running the show. everyone
else is basically just a syncophant who's trying to get ahead and stay working.
then there's like their families and such and like... they didn't do anything
wrong, they just eat cheese and wine and laugh at memes all day with their
besties.
they are basically pets
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spend enough time in the streets, and you get a pretty good at being the
streets.
but, you have a house. you aren't homeless. you're street.
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if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
problems and they just can't have that.
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democracy as it was currently conceptualized dates back from a time when it was
impossible to ask every person every question all at the same time. We needed
time to talk through and get to know a topic before we made any choices about
it. Hence, single-party voting, and the build-up of disagreement when people
feel like the one thing they care about is not implemented. Too bad they care
about things like, bodily autonomy and human rights.
Maybe we could appease them by giving them something else that they want
Oh? Like trans people?
No brad, like the russians
Or maybe the rich, ya?
goodness. how about nobody
[appeasement never goes anywhere]
[the issue is more fundamental than compromise]
[human rights are not up for discussion]
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║ @user-646 │
║ │
║ there are plastics that are (nearly) infinitely recyclable into the same (or a │
║ similar) form │
║ │
║ there are plastics that are durable and built to last │
║ │
║ then there are cheap plastics, the kind that are useful for some kind of │
║ industrial purpose but to make a little you kinda have to make a lot, and yeah │
║ they pollute and are bad for the environment but we have a whole lot of them │
║ made, so wouldn't it be cheaper to just use it for consumer products? │
║ │
║ hmmmm. why can't we just like... store it? and then scale down on production, │
║ and focus on things that make less money but last longer. │
║ │
║ like, if you break shit, you shouldn't have more things. If everything's │
║ expensive (and durable) then people spend less because their stuff doesn't │
║ break. Or maybe they do break it, and then they're constantly broke! (out of │
║ cash) │
║ │
║ [doesn't know what she's talking about from professional experience, just │
║ basing her words on things she's read] │
║ │
║ problem is the economy is "healthier" if everyone's spending. thus, creating │
║ infla │
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leftists be like "what if everyone was fed" and the response is "ah but what if
they gave us some of their stuff first"
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the first reason I feel the way I do is because the supreme court recently made
a decision that made it constitutional for people to be jailed or fined for
sleeping in public.
homeless people, by definition, have no place to (reliably) go but public
spaces.
therefore, by existing in their environment, they are criminals.
a criminalized people is genocide.
I cannot respect the legitimacy of a legal system that would condone genocide.
[2/5]
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║ │
║ │
║ whenever I talk to capitalists (who actually have money and aren't larping wage │
║ slaves) they always tell me that the best way to address the concerns I have │
║ with capitalism is to make a million or more dollars by making a company, and │
║ then using that million dollars to buy houses for people I care about. │
║ │
║ I ask "what about the rest of the people, the ones I don't know?" │
║ │
║ their response typically boils down to "if you don't know them, then why should │
║ you care? fuck 'em" │
║ │
║ It's never about hope or change. They want to change the world to make it │
║ cooler, not kinder. generally. │
║ │
║ bonus: "if you like unions so much, why don't you join one?" my guy, unions │
║ WERE great when they wielded power. Now they are bureaucratic and listless, │
║ serving only to sedate the working class enough that they stop complaining and │
║ get back to work. They are functionally a part of the enslavement system, a │
║ built-in course correction mechanism to ensure capitalism remains solvent when │
║ the powerful overstep their humanity. │
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│ CW: politics │
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politicians appeal to certain segments of the population. That's just how
they're designed. They're meant to be reflections of your hopes. We shouldn't
demand them to be moral, or kind - they should just do what we want them to.
That is the spirit of democracy, that we the people should decide.
... a lot of people watch reality TV though, like... all day every day
and a lot of people listen to fox news and such
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║ "I just love their culture" girl it's a barbeque "I figure they'd want a place │
║ of their own, right?" why don't you ask them "well, they didn't want to move, │
║ and something something manifest destiny, voila now they get all the non-sacred │
║ sites while we get the magic gem generation spots" girl now you're just talking │
║ about video games "haha yeah I wanted to change the subject so we didn't talk │
║ about how I'm culturally appropriating fireworks or whatever they likme to do │
║ in their churches and suburbs or whatever" │
║ │
║ [yes, I know they like me. I like them too. I also like liberals, even though │
║ IU demand a lot of them] meanwhile the witch is a doom profit so watch out haha │
║ I'm so broke "what if we were all friends" okay that's one idea "what if we all │
║ got to know each other" okay that's closer "what if we didn't hide from our │
║ variety and instead celebrated it" getting warmer "did you know there's no war │
║ but the class war" okay but class is made up, so war is fake just like dollars │
║ are paper and notes are just words. │
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║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │
║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │
║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │
║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │
║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │
║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │
║ │
║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │
║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │
║ │
║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │
║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │
║ │
║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │
║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │
║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │
║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │
║ communal s │
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what if instead of shredding our cardboard boxes and melting them down into
fertilizer or whatever we instead gave them to homeless people
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politics is basically just "which politician archetype annoys you more?" which,
like, could we maybe have politicians who aren't annoying?
oh right they do that on purpose. Makes for a better spectacle. Gotta keep the
people in line, or else who knows what they might get up to. Maybe they'll
build a house! Maybe they'll tear it down! Maybe they'll throw a party! Maybe
they'll stay afterwards to clean up! Maybe they'll grow their own food! Enough
for all to share! Maybe they'll air their dirty laundry, out where everyone can
hear! Maybe they'll sit around and fart while eating cheetos! Maybe they'll
work twice as hard because their work is their own! Maybe they'll laugh at the
losers who tried to claim that they could master the fate of an entire domain,
and maybe they'll simply go insane.
Who can say! None but the fools, surely, surely the system is too arcane,
surely our way is better, surely their way is deranged.
Oh! Poverty! How it comes for ye, whenever you choose to step out of line
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me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
dismantling capitalism!"
also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
equally.
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universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
the rest of the world even existed.
Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's
always been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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║ sometimes, rarely, you have to make decisions against human nature. │
║ │
║ to do otherwise would be to invite destruction through the slow and measured │
║ application of the flaws of humanity magnified through society and harming for │
║ all time all of posterity. │
║ │
║ errrr sounds kinda fashy, kinda genocidally, yeah... that's not what I meant at │
║ all. │
║ │
║ I meant like hatred and bigotry, the kinds of things that cause the kind of │
║ things you might see in this, if you take the least charitable interpretation │
║ of what I say. │
║ │
║ and what is the far right if not for "least charitable"? │
║ │
║ every time I see a mutual aid post I can't help but think "there's no way to │
║ know if this is real or if it's just some guy siphoning away our money" │
║ │
║ I usually trust the people I've followed, so if one of them boost it then I go │
║ for it. │
║ │
║ but still, charity is not an efficient means bywhich to organize society. │
║ │
║ back on point - decisions against human natures like hatred and bigotry. │
║ the kind that cause oppression. the things that disrupt our functioni │
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Billionaires aren't solving childhood food insecurity.
They have the capacity to, with their essentially endless supply of dollars,
which taste good on rye with a dash of mustard.
But alas, they choose not to.
They CHOOSE to STARVE children. They choose that, by not dedicating their lives
to solving that particular problem.
"oh but like, there's so many problems in the world, how can-" shut the fuck
up, spend the dollars, make it happen, and now there's one fewer billionaire
and one fewer problem in the world. The next one can fix the next problem,
that's why we keep them around, isn't it?
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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Why not let in all the immigrants, and disperse them throughout the country
equally. Then pay for them to travel between each place, until they're
permanent citizens and can be asked to contribute to their own place.
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charity is a band-aid for a systemic problem.
but sometimes you're still bleeding.
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║ │
║ │
║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of │
║ society we live under. │
║ │
║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply │
║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy │
║ load. │
║ │
║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the │
║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent? │
║ │
║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can │
║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we │
║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games. │
║ │
║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good │
║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in the │
║ habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then think │
║ about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they need? what │
║ are they working on next? Can make any of those availble? │
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I believe that all people's should be middle class, and if you're lower class
it's because you squandered your wealth, not that you didn't have it to begin
with.
I believe people of higher class should get there because they are skilled,
respected, or otherwise beloved. I believe they should hold less power the more
they own, because wealth is its own burden and reward.
I believe people who have power should respect it. They aren't necessarily
those who have little, or much, but rather those who deserve it. It is
difficult to estimate systematically who deserves wealth or power, but
difficult problems are the most interesting if kept fair.
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I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no
matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is,
there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So
what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time to
show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern society
as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to live as
they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of bullshit
micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever time wasting
jobs.
modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
without the oppression. Without the coercion.
all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because
they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
I personally want communes + love
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"homeless" is just cap-talk for "too poor to function"
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rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
profit extraction.
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@user-898
the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
breaks.
I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
what happens.
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Considering the fact that medical care is so expensive, surely that means the
expertise, labor, materials, and infrastructural capability to address people's
health and well-being is in tight supply.
meaning, for things I can understand and live with, I should avoid seeking help
because those resources could be applied toward some cause that can't be lived
with, or is not understood. If it doesn't cause distress, don't touch it.
"babe you literally piss yourself on accident if you forget to go to the
bathroom, what's your plan"
oh um how kind of you to ask, uh, it's mostly just to close my ears and hope it
goes away. like the weird thunder last night haha I'm pretty sure it wasn't
raining but I might have just been stoned?
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║ │ CW: revolutionary-politics-mentioned-swearing-mentioned │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ you said you wanted a revolution, and, well, I could not be more proud of you. │
║ It's actually getting done and if I stop and think about it I'm kind of amazed. │
║ Never thought I'd see this kind of change so quickly. │
║ │
║ "what change? I see nothing substantially different" │
║ │
║ oh yeah well do you go outside often │
║ │
║ do you hang out in the park │
║ │
║ I know it's fuckin' january and it's cold as heck (ah nuts swearing mentioned │
║ one sec) but homeless people have to LIVE in that weather so like... wear │
║ layers, spend time outside, detox from dopamine, write poetry and tear it out │
║ and leave it on a park bench, be loud, claim the space, it's yours, that's what │
║ it's there for. │
║ │
║ I see it in your eyes. I see it in the random notes I find on the sidewalk. │
║ Everyone says "make friends, find community" and I say "commune with a │
║ stranger" but I'm also a witch and that's a pretty witchy thing to do. │
║ │
║ ... Really fuckin' wish we still had payphones (ah nuts swearing mentioned - oh │
║ already CWd) │
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│ CW: communism-mentioned │
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if you're rich and you want stability, you'll invest in black trans communists.
the reason is, if they're forced to lose the country, you lose your investment.
which isn't ideal.
if you want to align yourself toward a particular goal or directionality,
putting some skin in the game is necessary.
power isn't fun if your pokerface sucks.
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│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
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capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
against it.
like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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