Ug it's bullsht, people are ridiculous

Apparently there's something called billionaires row where 50% of the apartments are by design, empty. The homeless and anyone else wouldn't want to live in it as apparently the trash chute makes trash go at terminal velocity and the wind makes the buildings sway back and fourth from how tall it is. But people purchase these apartments for 1 million dollars each for a security deposit.

Not sure why but apparently tax loop hole.

So again, we can't afford health care, we can't afford cheaper housing or to make the earth less polluted but we can afford to build several really skinny tall buildings by which trash goes down like a meteor and the building sways in the wind, then just leave them there.

Crazy.

And a few people live there but only like 5%.

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CynicalSpaceMan · 26-30, M

The government :

A) likely wont ever do anything about this and

B) even if they do, whatever it is will create problems just as bad if not worse than this.

History has taught us this lesson so many many times now.

Local-scale solutions done by common people and for common people in a heterarchical and decentralized manner is the only lasting path away from one form of coercive and exploitative tyranny or another.

The problem was, and is, hierarchical and centralized power.

Try whatever combination of economic and political systems you want. So long as hierarchical and centralized power structures continue to dictate the rhythms of history we will be forever trapped in this repetitive cycle.

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CynicalSpaceMan · 26-30, M

@DeWayfarer

Local doesn’t equal collectivist ownership or forced participation. The difference is voluntary entry and protected exit.

If someone can leave without losing their livelihood, it’s not coercive. And if private property and external participation are preserved, it’s not communism

Small groups can become unhealthy when they isolate, centralize leadership, or eliminate exit. The safeguards I’m describing

Freedom of movement

Heterarchy

are specifically to prevent those failure modes.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@CynicalSpaceMan I really believe you are forgetting social dynamics in any groups large or small.

I was once in a cult. The dynamics were both large and small celled. On multiple levels.

The only way out was to totally remove myself across the whole country where it didn't exist. And I was lucky even then. Just the right circumstances had to occur in a certain order.

The small cell was only four of us. Total strangers at first. We lived together. Basic commune.

CynicalSpaceMan · 26-30, M

@DeWayfarer

I'm really sorry you went through that. Being in a cult and having to uproot your life to escape would make anyone cautious about small-group dynamics.

You’re right that small groups can become coercive. That’s real. What I’m describing only works if exit is not just theoretical but practically easy; meaning people retain private property, external income, and full freedom to leave without losing their livelihood or identity.

If housing, income, or belonging are monopolized by the group, then it’s a cage. That’s exactly the failure mode I’m trying to avoid through decentralization, heterarchy, and preserved participation in the wider society.

If exit isn’t easy, the model fails

SinlessOnslaught · M

I contemplated on whether I should buy coffee today or not because the money could help someone in need, and someone else out there is like, "I need another empty apartment."

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@SinlessOnslaught Yes lol right now there's some people who are purchasing million dollar apartments and aren't living in it and they think it's a good idea.

Enjoy your coffee though cos you should.

bookerdana · M

Not anything new

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

Yes, by design.
Uniparty design!

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

In a serious society this would be fraud pure and simple.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yeah we don't have a decent society though.

There's like four of these gigantic buildings. Tear them down and make housing for the poor. Most people don't even live there, they purchase them for security whatever that means. Those apartments aren't even good security when trash thrown down the trash chute reaches terminal velocity and you gotta worry about fire.

Rich people are soooooooo weird

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

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