drb91

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by drb91 7y ago
So long as the only option to sell is to the government this could be a short term solution to bring the market rate down, especially if we can modify eminent domain to reimburse well below market rate.
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by drb91 7y ago
Personally, the social anxiety of working in an open office is far more detrimental to my productivity than anything. I would kill for even a cubicle.
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by drb91 7y ago
Meh, most of it’s just having capital.
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by drb91 7y ago
Why would you expect remote to be less efficient? Working in an open office is incredibly distracting—of course there’s productivity gains from going remote.
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by drb91 7y ago
It generally means working for change through elections both through electing representatives and plebiscites.
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by drb91 7y ago
Right, so the market is what makes housing unaffordable. Making housing a guaranteed human right will make it entirely affordable—at least on the end of using it. Housing is entirely a cost that should be amortized over those able to afford
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by drb91 7y ago
This seems cultural, and before the invention of privacy this was the norm. EDIT: I thought that was a meme and it's not—i'm referring to the growth of the middle class and multi-room houses.
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by drb91 7y ago
Affordable housing is code for unaffordable housing. Otherwise it'd just be housing. You're very correct it's on a spectrum—we're between being entirely homeless and entirely housed. Only one end of that spectrum is acce
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by drb91 7y ago
Furthermore I hypothesize people would be motivated by bad conditions to either collectively invest in better housing or to move to where there is housing. This just removes wealth from that equation.
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by drb91 7y ago
Electoralism, ideally. Traditionally, removing landlords has been very violent, and I would like to avoid that. The US guarantees market value for eminent domain, which is a sweet deal compared to, say, what’s happening in Berlin right now.
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by drb91 7y ago
Some people are picky about which brand of bottled water to buy, but people still have a right to water.
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by drb91 7y ago
...and if so, balanced around what center?
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by drb91 7y ago
Where do you claim there are favorable conditions? As far as I am aware the homeless are everywhere; some places are simply impossible to live without shelter due to exposure.
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by drb91 7y ago
You can give money to whomever you want. Just don’t withhold shelter from the homeless just because they don’t have money.
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by drb91 7y ago
Well the answer is to build more housing, and companies should start elsewhere if there isn’t the housing or talent in the area. Maybe I could move out of SF then...
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by drb91 7y ago
We have, I believe, about 3x the empty units as we have homeless people in this country. Sure there are distribution issues, but it’s a matter of political will.
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by drb91 7y ago
I do not, but I know for sure commodifying housing doesn’t create favorable housing conditions.
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by drb91 7y ago
I don’t like the homeless outside my window, so I’ll pass on this opportunity to give all my money to someone who does jack shit for my life.
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by drb91 7y ago
Yea but why would they? Their prestige is grounded in the illusion of elite meritocracy.
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by drb91 7y ago
Just this past month Stop & Shop workers struck and the company lost a lot of money before negotiating an end favorable to workers. This is effective. Upper class professionals are less likely to strike even though proportionally they a
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by drb91 7y ago
Schools also have an incentive to keep acceptance rate as low as possible as it’s an (extremely bullshit) signal of value.
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by drb91 7y ago
Housing doesn’t have to be a commodity at all. It can easily be an unconditional human right.
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by drb91 7y ago
I’d call it property damage and would expect full market value in compensation.
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by drb91 7y ago
Well, what are your values?
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by drb91 7y ago
I think you mean immense value—your best work is still to make others rich.
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by drb91 7y ago
> First, and importantly -- both previous LA Olympics generated real profits, as in, actual economic profits. Not unicorn fantasy profits like most tech companies embrace (ahem Groupon, Uber, Twitter, Tesla, etc.). Sure, and what did the
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by drb91 7y ago
Paying for healthcare you need out of pocket is pretty fucked up.
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by drb91 7y ago
We basically have forced labor camps for men and women on non-violent charges. Black men experience this at a far higher rate than the rest of the population. Of course we’re a racist country, and cops are a massive part of this mechanism.
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by drb91 7y ago
Yes, this is unfortunately a reality.
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by drb91 7y ago
Well McCarthyism removed just about everyone who would have fought for public health care in the 60s with the rest of the western world.

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