> What's the point of democracy if your idea of your home, and your opinions on it, are totally overruled by some external force That's that whole capitalism t

> What's the point of democracy if your idea of your home, and your opinions on it, are totally overruled by some external force That's that whole capitalism thing at work. Somebody owns that complex. That somebody had been convinced to lease it out. The town has little influence on it. (I don't think it's a good idea they weren't consulted, but it's not random decisions by the state, either. Somebody wanted to make money.) Democracy is still fully working. This is what happens when things aren't communal property. > that wants to run some experiments Nobody wanted to run an experiment. Even if the article title implies that. The concern was "we have a bunch of people, we need to house them, this housing is available". That's the long and the short of it.