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Neither option is humane. In both cases, the capitalist illness has destroyed any sense of community. Nobody in big cities knows their neighbors. And very few
by southerntofu 7y ago
Neither option is humane. In both cases, the capitalist illness has destroyed any sense of community.
Nobody in big cities knows their neighbors. And very few people organize against poverty, against their bosses, landlords, and police abuse. They could have a good life if they did, but don't underestimate the capacity of an oppressive system to isolate people (because it's the only way it can survive).
- bobthepanda 7y agoI mean, the former Warsaw Pact states are also full of lots of "soulless" dense housing, just Communist-flavored. You can have lots of housing, cheap housing, and quality housing, but never really all three. Vienna, which a lot of people like bringing up as an example of a friendly masss housing program, recorded flat or declining population every decade until 2000, and has still not recovered from its pre-WWI peak, which wasn't even very big at 2M people.