It’s an investment by the megacorps (with gov monies) into keeping the plebs in check, to not get any ideas around equity, social reform, tax increases, megacorp regulation (consumer prices/margins cap), higher wages, etc.
It’s super effective.
The same infrastructure can also be recycled in event of a full-on fascist gov.
Not only that. The housing is then maintained by taxpayers, who are not the rich strata. So it’s another way to funnel money from the poor/middle class to the corporation owned by the rich.
I’m unfamiliar with this bal—Is it a country or an ism?
An ‘-ism’. Specifically anarcho-capitalism.
I regret asking, but thank you for the clarification
Anarcho-capitalism, which is just capitalism unchained by any and all sort of regulation of a state. And I mean that literally. Slavery? Fair game. Children? Property of the parents and a commodity for the markets. Collective bargaining and workers rights? Unprofitable for the shareholders. Human rights? Only for corporations. Justice? Money makes right. Monopoly on violence? Belongs to the bagholder.
Long story short, it’s just fascism for nerds.
also unfortunately has taken for itself the label of libertarianism in the american adjacent cultural sphere so people don’t even know about niche left libertarian shit like market socialism or like that guy who did the Cincinnati Time Store, further solidifying capitalism as “the only system” that makes sense to them
Truth. The cheapest option is housing and mental health care.
In particular if you look at the long term (even just a couple of years): many homeless just need a little help to start climbing the ladder again. So housing and mental care would allow them to quickly become productive members of society. Prisons just lock them into a circle of poverty.
It isn’t even really about the privatization. They just want the ability to game the investment scam system.
This is how people start believing the free market makes it moral for poor people to just die instead
Don’t worry though, totally-not-zionist “lefty” Mandani got elected, he’ll tots take care of the homeless and defo not fall into this pattern!
totally-not-zionist “lefty” Mandani
What?
They’re a troll, this is a normal rage bait comment they make
It’s jibberish. Might as well be calling Trump a TERF or complaining that Andrew Cuomo isn’t Italian.
😁 Classic worlder lib
Marxist: “There’s a fake leftist among us”
Libs: “HOW DARE YOU! our prized New York Lies told us he’s EXTREMELY left!!! TanKiE TrOlL!”
I’ve been seeing a bunch of people saying that he’s not really anti-Zionist because he says Israel has a right to exist “as a state with equal rights” rather than saying they don’t have a right to exist and that he’s not actually a Lefty because he isn’t making like huge sweeping promises before even getting into office officially.
It honestly just sounds like more “Holier Than Thou, I’m The Better Leftist” LARP that the Online Left seems to love engaging in.
Edit: Oh and people taking him talking about the talks he’s had with Jewish New Yorkers about the whole “Globalize Intifada” smear the wrong way. I guess some have taken it as him capitulating to the Zionists when I guess to me it sounds more like he’s just saying that he understands that he had a different view on what those words meant than other people apparently did not that he’s changing his views or anything.
I’d personally be way more excited about Mamdani if he hadn’t called Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships at a time when the US is ramping up aggression in the region. It really feels like helping manufacture consent and capitulating to the US empire. I hope he does a lot of good for y’all, but I personally don’t trust him as a latina living in Latin America.
idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.
I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”
I get that, I hope you’re right, but it’s still a disappointing statement coming from a leftist. I have a hard time thinking he doesn’t know about Cuban democracy, but even if that’s the case, does he believe Cuba is less democratic than the US, where Bernie got screwed over by the DNC, where gerrymandering and overpolicing make some states red for perpetuity, etc?
I wanna be hopeful but AOC was a massive letdown so I’m skeptical. But if I’m mistaken I’ll be relieved. We all deserve decent politicians and policies.
idk, it’s hard to say at the end of the day what is real belief and what is playing politics. Personally with what I’m seeing if a right leaning think tank like the Manhattan Institute is mad about what you’re saying about Cuba and Venezuela then you’re probably on the right track even if you did call them “dictatorships” in a later statement.
I absolutely feel being burned. I’ve been very disappointed in some of my more progressive officials in government lately. But right now IMO he’s given no real tangible reason I’ve seen beyond things that have been said to doubt him. Until that point I’m willing to believe that the no condemnation interview version is the “real belief” and the “they’re dictators” statement is a placating bit of politics playing after having said the important part first.
Meanwhile in AES states like the DPRK:
Homeless? Never heard of her
We? How about “we” remove the rich, so that homelessness is only a frie and true choice if you want to be traveling?
The only people who’d like there to be homeless people are the rich and powerful.
How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?
How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?
Don’t forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It’s expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.
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Unfortunately we deport them to the lowest bidder with a prison.
The cruelty is part of the fun! Plus prison = free slave labor!
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Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it’s cheaper.
It’s “expensive” in the “right” way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.
So it’s only “expensive” for the masses, which lawmakers don’t care about.
Not to mention the slave labor they gain out of it.
I was lumping that into “revenue”
👆 👆 These two guys/girls/dudes/men/women get it.
Just another way to extract surplus created by the 99%.
UBI when?
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You gotta feed those private prison shareholders!
