RE: The Problem With Capitalism Is That T.H.E.Y. Can Buy the Whole World
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A word I didn't see here, which needs to be here, is centralization. Another word that belongs here and isn't here is merit. I became so outraged at the assumption that merely existing entitled people to other people's stuff that I couldn't keep reading, so maybe they show up in the parts I skipped. I am having difficulty expressing my disappointment tactfully, my friend. I have many times lived without a home, and I have never once thought someone should give me a home just because I didn't have one. I am not sure, from your post above, that you can even conceive of the degree of cringe that very concept engenders in me, so I thought to mention it.
Rabbits dig their own burrows, you know. Birds collect sticks and grass with which they assemble nests. If you think there is any benefit to birds in building nests for them that don't build their own, I assure you that evolutionary forces will far outweigh it with harms. It is no kindness to keep everyone in padded rooms with IV fluids and feeding tubes, catheters and ostomies, and stereo headsets playing pron 24/7 with electrostimulation. Without challenges life literally becomes an horrific hellscape of inconceivable cruelty. You are not wrong to point to pathological greed as a debilitating problem, but you grossly err to imply there is anything wrong with hard working people wisely investing, and that the indolent should be given what the industrious have earned.
Rabbits and birds find a space that isn't being used by someone else, and build a home. Humans aren't allowed to do that, and that is the root of the problem.
First, the newly minted, and "educated" human has to OUT BID everyone that came before him. People that got there first (because they were born first) and bought up everything. So, now the people who have had a lifetime of building wealth, asks those without any experience, to PAY FOR the privilege of living.
I comprehend your point of view, but i do not believe it. It only works if, at minimum, once every four generations, there is a HUGE die-off that resets everything.
A house should cost about 1 year of labor. But, it is over 15 now, if you are lucky enough to have a work ethic, and an ability to work well.
The most damaging thing is that people were sold on the idea that your home is an asset. And so, people got the bright idea to buy homes as assets. These are living spaces, not assets. And so, the idea that people have gone out and en mass, made every house more expensive than any young-in could afford, is evil.
As evil as buying up all the food and telling people that they will need to pay more for food.