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This massive destabilization/bubble you are describing is not a good thing by the way.
by bruce343434 5y ago
This massive destabilization/bubble you are describing is not a good thing by the way.
- xwdv 5y agoDon’t care, I’m sick and tired of kicking this can down the road. Let the bodies pile up in the streets, in the end they’ll beg us to save them.
- jessaustin 5y agoYou must be pretty sure you're in the "us" camp and not the "them" camp... one hopes it works out for you.
- fundad 5y agoThat also means housed workers will be in more demand, command higher wages and increase cost of living for everyone. So I agree it's good for worker power if that's the point you're trying to make.
- commandlinefan 5y agoThey won’t beg. They’ll vote.
- jessaustin 5y agoSome might hope they will limit their actions to voting.
- bumby 5y agoI know the commenter you’re referring to may come across as venting but I’ll try to be generous to their take: In my laymans understanding of game theory, one of the things that becomes apparent is that the best outcomes come from cooperation but only when freeloading can be kept below some threshold. Once freeloading reaches some tipping point, the system destabilizes and collapses.
- jessaustin 5y agoOnce freeloading reaches some tipping point, the system destabilizes and collapses. We're well past the tipping point of freeloading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432326
- bumby 5y agoCan you elaborate how you reached that conclusion? It’s obvious there is anecdotal evidence of freeloading across all classes (as has always been). What’s not clear to me is what constitutes a real tipping point where we can claim a destabilizing effect that makes the system unsustainable