08-03-2022, 01:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2022, 01:22 AM by Eric the Green.)
Is joy and celebration going away in the USA today?
I think today's high prices, not just in the last year, but decades now, are curtailing the possibilities of life for all. I don't know how real estate prices, for example, can come down, but they are killing the life of great cities. Something's gotta break. Everything costs too much. Permits for law enforcement quintupling so people can't go to a kite flying festival in Berkeley. Art schools closing because of high real estate prices and tuition costs. Only a few people can afford to be artists. Musicians still can't play in some places. Just all over the place. Covid seems to have dealt a big blow to the things that make life fun.
There needs to be a recovery from this, short term and long term. Maybe some owners of real estate need to lose the value of their homes and offices. So be it. If the best cities in the country force their residents to work all the time, and close themselves off from anyone moving there who is not wealthy, that is a world that needs to "come around" to a newer world where most people can do real living again.
This wasn't my favorite song, but I got to like it. I think it summarizes what is being lost today. And it takes on some melancholy when I think of the people shot down at a 4th of July Parade this year. And I note that this massacre happened in a suburb of Chicago. Guns, high prices, low incomes, climate disasters, pandemics, fanatic believers, ruin things today. Can we recover our joy of life, or will we live in fear and relative poverty?
I think today's high prices, not just in the last year, but decades now, are curtailing the possibilities of life for all. I don't know how real estate prices, for example, can come down, but they are killing the life of great cities. Something's gotta break. Everything costs too much. Permits for law enforcement quintupling so people can't go to a kite flying festival in Berkeley. Art schools closing because of high real estate prices and tuition costs. Only a few people can afford to be artists. Musicians still can't play in some places. Just all over the place. Covid seems to have dealt a big blow to the things that make life fun.
There needs to be a recovery from this, short term and long term. Maybe some owners of real estate need to lose the value of their homes and offices. So be it. If the best cities in the country force their residents to work all the time, and close themselves off from anyone moving there who is not wealthy, that is a world that needs to "come around" to a newer world where most people can do real living again.
This wasn't my favorite song, but I got to like it. I think it summarizes what is being lost today. And it takes on some melancholy when I think of the people shot down at a 4th of July Parade this year. And I note that this massacre happened in a suburb of Chicago. Guns, high prices, low incomes, climate disasters, pandemics, fanatic believers, ruin things today. Can we recover our joy of life, or will we live in fear and relative poverty?