"Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?" Because this whole thread started with the assertion that "The capitalist economy is broken f...
"Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?" Because this whole thread started with the assertion that "The capitalist economy is broken for youth today", so the assumption is that fixes are to move away from capitalism. "If the state built homes until there were enough for everyone" You can probably skip that step, and just rewrite the rules for adverse possession. America currently has more vacant homes than there are homeless people. In fact, if we wanted, we could give six vacant homes to each homeless person, let them pick the one they like the best, and give back the other five. It absolves the taxpayer obligation to maintain the homes (which isn't really being met anyway), puts the homeless in homes, and doesn't really have too much in the way of perverse incentives, but for the invariability that we might temporarily grow the homeless population for those looking for free homes. I don't know how that fixes wage slavery in any meaningful way though, as having a home doesn't positively correlate to having a job. The problem of poverty right now is lack of full time employment. There's not really any fix for wage slavery that is predicated on capitalism, if capitalism is to have any actual meaning, anyway. I mean, there's minimum wage, but while it's easy to acknowledge that there's no direct correlation between minimum wage and unemployment, OECD companies with the highest minimum wages tend to have the highest rates of unemployment. Unemployment very positively correlates with poverty, house or not. There's an argument to be made that if housing were free, that the minimum wage could be abolished, but that doesn't sound like something you'd support.
Posted by bmelton on Apr 30, 2015, 3:36 PM
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How is "diversity of population" automatically a good thing?
Where I'm from (The Netherlands) they have corporations, not individual people from whom you rent.
"Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?" Because this whole thread started with the assertion that "The capitalist economy is broken f...
I think the author misses the point.
I'm a freelancer, been 100% remote for the last 3 years.
"Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?" Because this whole thread started with the assertion that "The capitalist economy is broken f...
"Why jump to 'alternative to capitalism'?" Because this whole thread started with the assertion that "The capitalist economy is broken for youth today", so the assumption is that fixes are to move away from capitalism. "If the state built homes until there were enough for everyone" You can probably skip that step, and just rewrite the rules for adverse possession. America currently has more vacant homes than there are homeless people. In fact, if we wanted, we could give six vacant homes to each homeless person, let them pick the one they like the best, and give back the other five. It absolves the taxpayer obligation to maintain the homes (which isn't really being met anyway), puts the homeless in homes, and doesn't really have too much in the way of perverse incentives, but for the invariability that we might temporarily grow the homeless population for those looking for free homes. I don't know how that fixes wage slavery in any meaningful way though, as having a home doesn't positively correlate to having a job. The problem of poverty right now is lack of full time employment. There's not really any fix for wage slavery that is predicated on capitalism, if capitalism is to have any actual meaning, anyway. I mean, there's minimum wage, but while it's easy to acknowledge that there's no direct correlation between minimum wage and unemployment, OECD companies with the highest minimum wages tend to have the highest rates of unemployment. Unemployment very positively correlates with poverty, house or not. There's an argument to be made that if housing were free, that the minimum wage could be abolished, but that doesn't sound like something you'd support.
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