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I think you'll find its not billionaires stopping that, its elected officials.
by elephant81 4mo ago
I think you'll find its not billionaires stopping that, its elected officials.
- cambrianentropy 4mo agoYou are soooo close!
- peab 4mo agoThis sort of comment does not belong on hacker news.
- neumann 4mo agoYes their are. Majority of elected officials are just their instrument. The amount of money billionaires spend shaping media, lobbying and campaigns to get power and push propaganda to determine who is elected makes the fight to get people like AOC who are working in the interest of society so much harder.
- nlitened 4mo ago> people like AOC who are working in the interest of society People like AOC just pander to uneducated populace who'd prefer to use force to take free stuff of other people who work instead of working themselves. Very easy to keep electing such politicians — just continue giving out more free stuff, so that people think it's the norm, and working is not required, just always taking is fine. People will vote accordingly
- oezi 4mo agoThat's a grim view on a politician who - looking from the outside - is just thinking and talking like a normal human. There are a lot of fine shades between a free riding communism and cut-throat capitalism. Finding workable balances is a key aspects of politics.
- ModernMech 4mo ago> use force to take free stuff of other people who work instead of working themselves. Funny, to me this describes the investor class.
- nlitened 4mo agoI'd really love to understand why you see it that way. In what way do investors force anybody to do anything?
- discreteevent 4mo agoBuy up all the property in an area and raise the rents in order to force other people to give them their hard earned cash so that they can spend it on a yacht in Monaco.
- nlitened 4mo agoThey don't force anybody though. People who think that the renting is too expensive and is not worth paying, are free to either 1) move to a place that has cheaper rent, or 2) build a new house from scratch since it's cheaper than renting. Price of rent increasing in desirable locations is not due to greed or collusion of bad actors (as long as government prevents monopolies), it's due to more people competing to live in a place that can house only a limited number. Of course everybody wants to live in big cities in the US. But rent is very cheap in dying small towns in the middle of nowhere.
- robotnikman 4mo ago>Of course everybody wants to live in big cities in the US. But rent is very cheap in dying small towns in the middle of nowhere. Another reason why WFH should become more of the norm, it will help solve the issue of expensive housing an rent since it means people could live in these less expensive towns and still be able to work.
- Starman_Jones 4mo ago
- missingdays 4mo agoWhat did she give away for free and how can I get more of it?
- mpweiher 4mo agoOther people's money.
- mif 3mo agoFree stuff like roads and schools? Or free stuff like polluted water and air?
- adamredwoods 4mo agoTo understand why the two are one and the same, is first to understand that the US is a plutocracy.