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Calico Heart posted:anyone have any more info on this? https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/06/002241/gizmodos-disappearing-story-explains-why-no-one-trusts-facebook
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Making a coop to fund and develop a printer that lays down blotter sheets of acid and other novel psychedelics. can’t you do that with some simple modifications to an inkjet?
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Accretionist posted:I'd pitch Universal Public Housing, too. $500 a month for rent The other big reason why the Vienna model was effective is because the city/muni directly owned a large portion of city's property. Unlike in the US system in which private landlords are able to run a for profit rent model with 10-12% yearly rent increases.
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Sedisp posted:upper middle class lol Rarity posted:luxury housing lol
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 19:37 |
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grah posted:That said I do think young people who get lucrative (often, tech related) jobs in cities suffering from gentrification ought to consider whether they should willingly pay 3x the median rent in a neighborhood. Yes it's the landlords' greed that is driving the system but I don't think anger against the most visible part of the gentrification cycle--the newer, wealthier, almost always whiter residents--is unexpected or even entirely unjustified. And the argument that they are just looking for cheap rent often falls apart when they are renting newly constructed/renovated 'luxury apartments' which is often the case. or should they just live in exurbs and commute an hour by car to avoid "gentrifying" anything as for the "new residents don't integrate into the neighborhood", what is "integrating into the neighborhood" to you? is it being the same color, religion, income level? the whole "they don't fit the neighborhood character" is just the woke version of every suburb that had racial-based covenants Shipon has issued a correction as of 21:13 on Oct 12, 2019 |
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Accretionist posted:I'd pitch Universal Public Housing, too. This owns!
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grah posted:That said I do think young people who get lucrative (often, tech related) jobs in cities suffering from gentrification ought to consider whether they should willingly pay 3x the median rent in a neighborhood. Yes it's the landlords' greed that is driving the system but I don't think anger against the most visible part of the gentrification cycle--the newer, wealthier, almost always whiter residents--is unexpected or even entirely unjustified. And the argument that they are just looking for cheap rent often falls apart when they are renting newly constructed/renovated 'luxury apartments' which is often the case. Blaming the consumer for the problems of capitalism has always just been the progressive version of voodoo economics. It perpetuates the liberal idea of micro solutions to macro problems and draws focus away from structural, systemic action. Young professionals making more "woke" decisions about where to live isn't going to address gentrification any more than vegetarianism has addressed factory farming or turning your lights off has addressed climate change.
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Shipon posted:where the gently caress are those young professional supposed to live if they don't want to "enable that system"? it's not like they necessarily want to pay more either, it's that no one is willing to build anything other than "luxury apartments" because limits on construction (especially in places like LA that mandate parking spaces for each apartment) make it only profitable to build to that market It's meeting and knowing your neighbors. It's not calling the cops on sidewalk barbecues or other social gatherings in spaces not designated for it. I've lived my whole life in poor neighborhoods in the Bronx and this isn't some imagined phenomenon. There is real tension between new, monied residents and long term poorer residents and often the new residents feel entitled to make the neighborhood conform to their expectations, and use the police to force the issue.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 21:59 |
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new money not integrating into the community is a problem in rural areas too. take my town's founders day: a September local holiday that's basically labor day and the 4th of July wrapped into one, complete with a bunch of seasonal vendors and a parade. We shut down the main street completely all day for it, and usually we get a special liquor license to make the whole street a liquor allowed zone so the two bars can basically share their customer pool with the food vendors and stuff, and so you can take your drinks to the goofy white people folk music concerts. Recently that hasn't been allowed because the new bay area folks think it's dangerous to kids or whatever, and it's really making locals insanely furious but the county government wants to attract a bigger tax base so they just go with it.
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they're also trying to get regulations to stop jeeper's jamboree from meeting up here, but while it kind of annoys locals for a few days it's a gigantic part of the town's commercial income for the year, so it directly impacts locals livelihood with this kind of stuff, on top of the culture conflict
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grah posted:It's meeting and knowing your neighbors. It's not calling the cops on sidewalk barbecues or other social gatherings in spaces not designated for it. I've lived my whole life in poor neighborhoods in the Bronx and this isn't some imagined phenomenon. There is real tension between new, monied residents and long term poorer residents and often the new residents feel entitled to make the neighborhood conform to their expectations, and use the police to force the issue. "meeting and knowing your neighbors" in a small town often means having them criticize your lifestyle if it doesn't mesh entirely with theirs. so you have someone who has to leave their birth town because of economics or cultural mis-match, but then they end up just trying to move somewhere else where the people who grew up there will never quite accept them as part of the community, and on top of that deride them as gentrifiers when they were just trying to find a job. the people calling the police over some dumb petty poo poo like that is stupid, but people who talk about gentrification seem to portray it as an inherently hostile act for someone to move into a neighborhood who isn't already integrated into that community. what's the solution then, to just not allow anyone to move from where they grew up? idk how to feel about gentrification - it sucks that people get priced out of where they grew up and rent control is a fantastic idea to protect those people, but so much of the anti-gentrification argument boils down to "if you didn't grow up somewhere you can't integrate into that community and shouldn't be there" which is, uh, what suburbs and small towns use to alienate people who don't fit in either. at the end of the day what's more important, neighborhood barbecues or people being able to actually afford to pay rent and be able to live close to where they work? we already know car-centric suburbs are horrible for the environment and building transit, but when it comes to being able to fit people close to where they work, people fight attempts to do out of fear the culture of their neighborhood changes.
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by far the best thing socialism will bring isn't ~material equality~ or ~massive increase in human flourishing~, but an end to these sorts of no-win arguments where the only solution is socialism but there's a lot of distracting bullshit that, while interesting, don't help.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 22:53 |
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T-man posted:Universal Basic Drugs, you get a trash bag full of weed each month or you can trade it in for a pound of heroin or a bushel of cocaine. Nah, just community gardens growing weed, coca, and poppies.
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this could be the plot of a curb episode, except larry wouldn't get persuaded against it
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Doctor Jeep posted:this could be the plot of a curb episode, except larry wouldn't get persuaded against it larry becomes convinced the child is a terrorist, turns out the kid was fixing his iphone
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Yeah clearly the solution is strong tenant unions, vacancy taxes, and universal rent control (I mean I'd prefer the total abrogation of private property and universal housing but I'd also accept the former). All I'm trying to say is that I empathize with and understand the anger towards the most visible agents of gentrification, and that their behavior can often make matters worse.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 01:27 |
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gentrification isnt a no answer problem unless you refuse to accept a materialist analysis that tells you 'maybe the property shouldn't be owned as a profit vehicle and the people who own it now should be shot into the sun or sent to do logging in the Yukon or something'
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Forced labour for property investors still wouldn't fix gentrification, they just accelerate it. Unless you mean literally everyone who owns property should be executed or sent to the gulag? Gentrification is just a feature of a free market and inequality. Unless there's something to stop them or support people to stay where they are, wealthier people will end up owning the more desirable or better located housing.
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bike tory posted:Forced labour for property investors still wouldn't fix gentrification, they just accelerate it. Unless you mean literally everyone who owns property should be executed or sent to the gulag? you can’t spell lmao without MAO
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bike tory posted:Forced labour for property investors still wouldn't fix gentrification, they just accelerate it. Unless you mean literally everyone who owns property should be executed or sent to the gulag? that’s what tragedy of the commons refers too. it’s sad (tragedy) that we have to kill or jail all these people. but it must be done for humanity to survive. we have to make hard decisions, tighten our belts, and kill our landlords. like I’m sad for them an their families but what choice do we have. they’ve left us no choice. of course if we could save our planet and species without doing it we woold. that’s why they call it the tragedy of the commons.
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grah posted:I mean I'd prefer the total abrogation of private property and universal housing but I'd also accept the former. The older I get the most certain I become that all real estate should remain property of the government and only leased out on year long leases.
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bike tory posted:Forced labour for property investors still wouldn't fix gentrification, they just accelerate it. Unless you mean literally everyone who owns property should be executed or sent to the gulag? yes. as a communist i do really think the entire ruling class needs to be removed from power. its kind of step one
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a fatguy baldspot posted:that’s what tragedy of the commons refers too. it’s sad (tragedy) that we have to kill or jail all these people. but it must be done for humanity to survive. we have to make hard decisions, tighten our belts, and kill our landlords. like I’m sad for them an their families but what choice do we have. they’ve left us no choice. of course if we could save our planet and species without doing it we woold. that’s why they call it the tragedy of the commons. you’ve got it backwards. if left alone, the wealthy would use their capital to fund fascist violence in order to terrorize and destabilize any sort of socialist state, regardless of violent uprising or not. it would be a tragedy to not remove them from the equation via revolutionary violence, and be little more than simply signing a death warrant for the people we’d claim to be standing up for. don’t waste your empathy or remorse for people that would throw you to the fascists in a heartbeat. to enter into a socialist state would mean entering a constant struggle against wealthy interests both foreign and domestic who see themselves entitled to profit off the backs of the common people at any cost. just look at the American government’s recent attempts to “make their economy scream,” and overthrow the government in Venezuela - it’s all so American oil companies can raid their oil reserves for profit.
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https://twitter.com/StudioMucci/status/1183251254283161602 https://twitter.com/hotelsdotcom/status/1183322731049152512
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our political system is insanely violent anyway. if anything the glorious worker's revolution, even if it started with every cop and bougioise up against a wall, would be overall less violent lol. or do you think having a bunch of unaccountable people that can take your job or your home or your freedom or your life at basically any time isnt violence?
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capitalism thread! I feel this is the right place to ask: bought myself a copy of Das Kapital, volume one. The preface though mentions something about volume two and three. I was under the impression that Marx only wrote volume one before dying? Am I missing something? are the two other volumes something continued by Engels or... ? The preface was saying how volume one is more of a critic of capitalism while the other volumes are about social messaging and proper solutions. is that it?
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There's actually a Kapital thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3816646
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thanks
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Taintrunner posted:you’ve got it backwards. if left alone, the wealthy would use their capital to fund fascist violence in order to terrorize and destabilize any sort of socialist state, regardless of violent uprising or not. it would be a tragedy to not remove them from the equation via revolutionary violence, and be little more than simply signing a death warrant for the people we’d claim to be standing up for. don’t waste your empathy or remorse for people that would throw you to the fascists in a heartbeat. no that’s the opposite of the tragedy of the commons. we call that the tragedy of the elite.
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StarMinstrel posted:capitalism thread! I feel this is the right place to ask: bought myself a copy of Das Kapital, volume one. The preface though mentions something about volume two and three. I was under the impression that Marx only wrote volume one before dying? wikipedia is actually good on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital#Synopsis quote:Capital, Volume II, subtitled The Process of Circulation of Capital, was prepared by Engels from notes left by Marx and published in 1885 quote:Capital, Volume III, subtitled The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole, was prepared by Engels from notes left by Marx and published in 1894.
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It's perfectly normal and healthy for child sweatshop workers to cry once in a while.
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Happy Fake Nobel Prize day everyone!
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https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1183767925183827969
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that line is a much shallower angle tho, clearly that means its not a bubble!!
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Nice try but I think you'll find that number can only go up forever in a 100% sustainable trajectory of pure profit.
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bag em and tag em posted:Nice try but I think you'll find that number can only go up forever in a 100% sustainable trajectory of pure profit. demand for marginally useful apps is entirely inelastic, so this checks out
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The Bloop posted:demand for marginally useful apps is entirely inelastic, so this checks out What app did you use to find that out?
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Lion unleashed on Pakistani man for demanding wagesquote:Raza had hired Rafique for some work at the congregation hall. When Rafique demanded the wages on the completion of the job, Raza told him to come later. "The caretaker kept delaying the payment. But when Rafique persisted, Raza got annoyed and unleashed his pet lion on him. The lion wounded his face and arm," the police said.
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