A nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
zifnab25
joined 5 years ago
If I did not want to get murdered, I would simply contract with the Houthis to shut down the Gulf of Adan until the killing stopped
Known in CIA circles as a "Reverse Tom and Jerry"
you weren't smart enough to invest during the downturn
Christ, I still see people say this shit about Bitcoin. For so many reasons, it fills me with rage.
Imagine if the Nazis had just run out of money while doing concentration camps and threatened their political opposition by proposing they release all the Jews.
Maybe don't participate in a vast train-wide conspiracy to gaslight a sweet old french detective.
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence.
I just like how Piketty's "R > G" theory made manifest is now just a matter of identity politics, rather than a mathematical principle.
If you're watching the big 401k line go up, it must seem strange to magically get 20% richer every year and see people complain about how they're feeling increasingly impoverished.
None of these fuckers grew up poor.
Poor is a phase you go through in college when you're living in student housing, dressing in sweat pants, and eating bowls of lukewarm ramen between classes. But then you graduate, work your way up through the New Hire program at your Fortune 500 company, get that first big five/six figure bonus check, and settle in as a 30-something with a proper labor aristocrat lifestyle.
Of course I grew up poor, but then I yanked hard on my bootstraps and now here I am!
Why didn't you get a position earning six figures as a mid-level accountant at an insurance adjustment firm? Must not have worked hard enough, clearly.
Healthcare, please.
Building units for use instead of commodification also means accessibility based on income, and building something that won't start falling apart in 20 years.
Sure. But the 5-over-1s that have been churned out for the last two decades appear to have largely stood the test of time.
I'm all on board with doing some actual civil engineering and city planning, rather than just letting Highest Bidder decide the next random thing we construct. But that's a 5-year-plan problem and homelessness / immediate housing shortage is a We-Can-Solve-This-Tomorrow problem. Grab those unsold units in the Houston Galleria Area "Astoria" and surrounding mid-rise blocks. Turn them into public sector units and you'll be well on your way to housing everyone that needs it practically overnight.
We saw this play out under former mayor Anise Parker, abet in the more capitalist friendly way of simply paying market rate for units. We had several hundred homeless veterans and we simply... rented some rooms in the area around the VA center and the problem was done with... until the next mayor decided to cut the budget for the program and let people get kicked out again.
The current paradigm is great for people who live home lives that are isolated with just their nuclear families, who drive 0.8 cars per capita to work 15-40 miles away, who maybe have a dog they let out in the yard twice a day, who consume 5 gallons of gas equivalents per day, and who take up 0.1 acres of land apiece not counting needs outside of housing. It's not designed for a healthy society.
No. I'm talking about Multi-Family Units inside 610 situated on some of the few functional mass transit lines the city actually maintains and work in the downtown service sector anyway. I'm not saying put the Houston homeless population in some Hwy 99 Katy Exurb. You can do this entirely within the inner loop and have units to spare.
Please someone find me a picture of Jill Biden in a shirt with a Penguin on it so I can make a "Windows v Linux" joke.