Capitalism is forgetting that the number one rule of being a parasite is that you don’t kill the host.
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AI advancements as well as renewable energy should be a utopian paradise for all earthlings.
Instead its a tool to allow culling of the masses thru famine plague and war.
IMO, eventually there will be a tipping point.
The rule is "don't kill the host before you've had a chance to reproduce." Capitalism is good at finding new hosts.
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No man, credits to bulwark the insane rents people are charging will only cement the practice. Why does it take 3x your income to qualify to rent a place? Why haven't corporations and foreign investors been moved out of the single family home industry? Why hasn't a cap been put on Air Bnb and other short term rentals? How about changing the regulations to allow zoning changes which can allow more homes on existing lots?
The government, as usual, simply doesn't understand the problem! So frustrating.
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Housing Crisis 2, electric Boogaloo
Housing crisis, car payment crisis, credit debt crisis, Healthcare crisis... wait, sorry, forget any of that. Joe says the economy is great. Just look at the stock market.
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Lawmakers are scrambling to help
Are they though?
Scrambling to make it look like you weren't just faffing off when you were supposed to be working? Like when your boss comes in and you've got a video game up on your screen? Or your wife comes home from out of town, and you're running around picking up laundry and pizza boxes? That sort of scrambling?
Yeah. Landlords need help.
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Hah, I'm looking forward to not being able to afford my rent when renewal comes up in a year.
I'll be making $110k, splitting the place with my brother, but who knows how much goes to my ex
After failing to make a significant dent in the problem over the last decade, state and federal lawmakers across the U.S. are making housing a priority in 2024 and throwing the kitchen sink at the issue — including proposals to enact eviction protections, institute zoning reforms, cap annual rent increases and dedicate tens of billions of dollars toward building more housing.
They haven't done anything for decades...
But we should believe them now in the run up to an election that after the next election they'll really do something.
They've been saying the same thing as far back as I can remember, but as soon as their elected they go back to ignoring it.
We need to get the Republicans and neoliberals out of office if we want actual progress. Neither of them will actually fix this shit, because the people donating them money don't want it fixed.
The most we'll get is billions to real estate moguls to subsidize them building high end housing that doesn't address the issue.
Sometimes they only campaign on "the rent is too damn high!"
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Single mom Caitlyn Colbert watched as rent for her two-bedroom apartment doubled, then tripled and then quadrupled over a decade in Denver — from $750 to $3,374 last year.
In Denver, Colbert’s bathroom roof partly caved in from a leak last year, and the landlord delayed a fix even as rent went up $200 a month.
There's a name for landlords like that: slum lords.
Meanwhile companies are raking in record profits, and the rich get richer. This won't stop until the workers seize the means of production.
the means of production was offshored decades ago