socialismisok

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by socialismisok 4y ago
If it's not vacant, it's someone's primary residence which is recorded, but also the landlords will have receipts and be taxed. If there is a vacant unit, the landlord's income with be smaller than expected and can be us
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by socialismisok 4y ago
It's realistic, but not common. We did it, and we did it because we read about someone else doing it.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Some folks (myself among them) view the idea that because someone started wealthy they should be able to get more wealthy simply because they can leverage their existing wealth to be a negative thing. Sure, there are cases where small landl
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Aggressively tax vacant units is the simplest to implement, but there's a lot (lot) more that could be done.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Abandoned homes aren't the same as vacant homes. Most cities have low double digit vacancy rates. Whatever city you live in, odds are good there are units sitting vacant while people are homeless. https://anytimeestimate.com
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by socialismisok 4y ago
With the exception of people who are landlords for the purposes of mutual aid. We rented a room out for a bit, but only charged "what you could pay" with a hard upper cap of "what it costs is to maintain the unit". We ha
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by socialismisok 4y ago
It absolutely kills me that there are approximately 30 empty homes for every homeless person in the States. (Roughly 550k homeless and roughly 16M vacant homes.) Investors are part of the problem, but by no means the only part. Anything t
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Yes, 1000 times yes. The idea that housing is an investment (or that you can invest in housing you'll never use) distorts so many systems in America. We stop thinking about housing as something everyone needs and start thinking about m
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by socialismisok 4y ago
No, I think the point being made is that it's bad to set wages this way. If every company is colluding, then wages are being kept artificially low. (Even in tech, where engineers are in demand.) Neither of these is fine.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Sports, especially global sporting events, are always political. Double especially when cities bid and bribe for the right to host. Triple when they have to build infrastructure that wasn't there before. Asking someone, quite politely,
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by socialismisok 4y ago
There are few skills more important to an engineer than concise, clear technical writing. It enables engineers to scale beyond themselves.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Strong unions could do industrial action to take down the site. Take the server offline.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
10% annual tax on wealth above $1 billion would get us pretty close.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Twitter workers could strike and shut down the site, they could strike and not make changes like the $8 verification badge, they could strike until Musk agreed to reasonable work hours. They could afford to pay a lawyer a whole lot to fight
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by socialismisok 4y ago
It's in the context of a thread where Elon is being demonstrably cruel. Read the op for examples.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
HN definitely has a range of ideological bents, and in my experience you'll run into a huge variety of ideologies. But among them all, pro-worker anti-capitalist is pretty rare. (Or even pro worker over pro management.)
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by socialismisok 4y ago
I'm dumbfounded that anyone thinks these were underperforming employees.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
That's probably a bit extreme for me (and I'm a self described communist). A million dollars of property is a fraction of a house in major urban areas who have seen big upswings in home values. That said, if we can decommidify hou
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Labor solidarity is an extremely common, useful, and productive way to think about boss vs worker concerns. It's why we don't cross picket lines, why we unionize and support other unions, etc.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
You are probably right, tbh.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
It's easy. It's easier to buy there than elsewhere because it's habit. I stopped prime a couple years ago, I buy from other stores when I can, but sometimes you just need protein powder, spray bottles, stove gaskets, a 300 pi
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by socialismisok 4y ago
He is. Demonstrably.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Maybe it's time to consider whether we're better off not having such concentrations of wealth... Let Musk keep $5B, he'll be able to live luxuriously forever on that. But he won't be able to ruin thousands of lives so ea
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by socialismisok 4y ago
If Twitter had unionized they could have protected themselves from the whims of Musk. It's still likely Musk would have massacred the company, but maybe people wouldn't be getting fired the day before Thanksgiving. How any enginee
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by socialismisok 4y ago
The absolute cruelty of Musk through this whole process is astounding. One has to assume he's like this at his other companies as well, which is absolutely shredding their reputation in my eyes.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
People should be keeping a week off water handy if they live somewhere this is possible. It's not hard to, it's relatively inexpensive, and it's pretty much fire and forget. If you live in somewhere threatened by climate or e
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Similar to coppicing! Or maybe a regional specialization of coppicing? Trees are incredibly resilient organisms, and producing products like this from them is such a great lost art.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Indefinitely. Unless you have a very narrow definition of society. People forget that things like industrialization and capitalism are very recent inventions, and throughout our species history we've had many many different ways of org
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Not just leftists. His fans are equally out of touch in the other direction.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Climate change applies negative pressure to keystone species like salmon. As their numbers dwindle we see die offs of other species of plants and animals. Ecosystem maintenance is part of Earth's homeostasis, and restoring salmon can h

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