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Surely this is going to be a problem as long as housing is just another market commodity? I remember living in a pretty shabby student ghetto district of Bosto
by Mizza 5y ago
Surely this is going to be a problem as long as housing is just another market commodity?
I remember living in a pretty shabby student ghetto district of Boston, and you'd regularly see graffiti saying "Keep Allston Shitty". In Philadelphia, I heard similar rumors of locals occasionally firing off a few gunshots every month, just to keep the white people scared and the rents down. Renters everywhere are basically incentivized to keep their neighborhoods as shabby as unsafe as they can handle.
- psyc 5y agoI knew you were talking about Allston before I got to the Allston part. Also a running subplot in the show Shameless.
- eli_gottlieb 5y agoFor once someone actually makes a decent point about the contradictory class interests of renters!
- imtringued 5y agoThe same is true of people who are trying to make themselves unfireable by writing difficult to maintain software to gain job security. They do this because they think they would be abandoned by society immediately the moment they are fired. It's kind of ironic. People want power not because they need it but instead to shield themselves from the bad side effects that not having power entails. In other words, people want to have power to protect themselves from those in power.