08-10-2016, 04:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2016, 04:17 AM by Eric the Green.)
Rags posted this on the wrong thread, but it deserves its own. I saw a study not long ago that it's cities like mine, San Jose, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Boston, that are causing inequality in our country. That's because as people are priced out of these places, they move elsewhere and start pushing prices up there too.
It's like we are becoming a medieval society, based on land ownership, except a lot of the owners are absentee. Meanwhile life as we knew it and communities are being destroyed. When life is reduced to work, it becomes death. The opposite ought to happen. That smug real estate guy tells people to be smart and get more education; meanwhile prices keep going up so fast that soon even smart, educated people won't be able to afford anything except their rent or mortgage.
The ideology voiced by Classic Xer is the problem here. Even in SF, according to this film, they can't pass rent or housing price controls, even though the hall is filled to overflowing with folks who want them. Bernie is right; we need a revolution for government action to restore our country. This situation gives new meaning to the socialist-anarchist slogan "property is theft." It is becoming more and more true. We might soon hear, "Storm the Bastille, and set up the guillotine for these aristocrats!" And if we can't start that Revolution here in these ultra-blue cities, where can we?
It's like we are becoming a medieval society, based on land ownership, except a lot of the owners are absentee. Meanwhile life as we knew it and communities are being destroyed. When life is reduced to work, it becomes death. The opposite ought to happen. That smug real estate guy tells people to be smart and get more education; meanwhile prices keep going up so fast that soon even smart, educated people won't be able to afford anything except their rent or mortgage.
The ideology voiced by Classic Xer is the problem here. Even in SF, according to this film, they can't pass rent or housing price controls, even though the hall is filled to overflowing with folks who want them. Bernie is right; we need a revolution for government action to restore our country. This situation gives new meaning to the socialist-anarchist slogan "property is theft." It is becoming more and more true. We might soon hear, "Storm the Bastille, and set up the guillotine for these aristocrats!" And if we can't start that Revolution here in these ultra-blue cities, where can we?