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But there are already a great many homeless and not the slightest move has been made in this direction. Perhaps there just aren't enough yet. If the nation is
by TomMckenny 7y ago
But there are already a great many homeless and not the slightest move has been made in this direction. Perhaps there just aren't enough yet.
If the nation is run by its people then what you describe would indeed happen. If it is run by a small cadre of wealthy then they would invite investment world wide to maximally drive up land values regardless of homeless numbers. Indeed there would be extreme reluctance as any seizure or even hint of it would permanently reduce land values.
Perhaps we'll see which is the case.
- badpun 7y agoRegarding homeless - there's a great youtube channel where a guy does long interviews with homeless people (unfortunately available in Polish only), and they basically say that, for them, consistently getting up early, commuting to job, working hard for 8+ hours (while being sober) is just more of a hassle than living on a street. There will always be people like that and the only way to not have homeless at all is to give people everything they need for free (UBI).
- TomMckenny 7y agoI not sure I'd put too much faith in a YouTube series. Also, sometimes Wikipedia is almost as good[1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias