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There are multiple types of capitalism. What's afflicting us is rentier capitalism which is the type commonly associated with slumlords. If you think everythin
by Gibbon1 2y ago
There are multiple types of capitalism. What's afflicting us is rentier capitalism which is the type commonly associated with slumlords.
If you think everything is being run by and for slumlords, the last 40 years makes total sense.
- noduerme 2y agoI suppose it's a bit simplified, but my impression of public housing in both socialist-capitalist societies and those communist societies that outright ban private property is that the government becomes the slumlord. I've seen public housing in France and Spain and in the former Soviet bloc, and it's just as grim everywhere. It never looks like the utopia on the 50s posters. The only housing people take care of is their own. Now, should a society enforce provisions on landlords to take care of their property? Absolutely. That's just capitalism with some basic rules.
- hro89 2y agoSingapore HDB, Austria, Netherlands are the textbook examples of better run public housing models. Its not that it doesnt exit.
- noduerme 2y agoI'm curious what policies are in place in those countries to make public housing not turn into a dystopian nightmare, and also whether those policies would be scalable from small, wealthy, low-crime countries to somewhere like the United States.