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A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] The bar in question was truly like the guys in the

A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] The bar in question was truly like the guys in the video were describing it: A living room for people who didn't have one at home. And it isn't the only one, so many of the essential spaces for working class people in my neighborhood died in the last few years. Rents exploded and people get pushed out of the districts they've lived in for decades. It really sucks, and it is an ongoing process slowly changing the whole city. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7sb-AziEn4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7sb-AziEn4

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] Don't know why, but I stopped being shocked by the things I saw in that documentary a while ago. "Super rich corporate entity buying properties in soon-to-be hotspots while avoiding taxes through complex foreign based shell structures, with the working class squeezed to death by higher rents and taxes, all while our elected officials look the other way since they've been well greased, wined and dined and their privately schooled kids are offered top positions in said corporate entities", has become such a common M.O. behind the façade of free market capitalism, that I'm not even surprised at this point. I just wonder when we'll have the next violent revolution or civil war and radical regime change as inequality can't continue to rise like this forever and still have a stable and peaceful, functioning society.
- yhoneycomb 5y ago
  I think the powers that be feel a lot more secure nowadays in their ability to stop a violent revolution since they can track everyone online.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  > just wonder when we'll have the next violent revolution or civil war and radical regime change as inequality Didn’t communism have its chance in Leipzig?

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

>A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] Don't know why, but I stopped being shocked by the things I saw in that documentary a while ago. "Super rich corporate entity buying properties in soon-to-be hotspots while avoiding taxes through complex foreign based shell structures, with the working class squeezed to death by higher rents and taxes, all while our elected officials look the other way since they've been well greased, wined and dined and their privately schooled kids are offered top positions in said corporate entities", has become such a common M.O. behind the façade of free market capitalism, that I'm not even surprised at this point. I just wonder when we'll have the next violent revolution or civil war and radical regime change as inequality can't continue to rise like this forever and still have a stable and peaceful, functioning society.

yhoneycomb 5y ago
I think the powers that be feel a lot more secure nowadays in their ability to stop a violent revolution since they can track everyone online.
TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
> just wonder when we'll have the next violent revolution or civil war and radical regime change as inequality Didn’t communism have its chance in Leipzig?