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Fact Check Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.
minus-squareCableMonster@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·5 months agoSure, why dont you start one and give away your labor to people that dont want to work as much as you?
minus-squarejorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoIf you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?
minus-squareCableMonster@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·5 months agoBecause I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?
minus-squarejorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoDo you think market economies are the only kind humanity has ever had?
minus-squareCableMonster@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·5 months agoNo, but how is a market economy worse than what people did in the past?
minus-squarejorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoConsider the thread we’re in. Housing perhaps should not be market driven
minus-squareCableMonster@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoDo you really want government provided housing? The ones I am aware of are places like the projects and were the worst place to live (unless you were a drug dealer).
minus-squarejorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWhen imagining that the government do more can you not imagine that it do better? Yes Americans have a shit government, they also don’t have a socialist government. You’re pointing to the corrupt right wing hellscape you currently live in to deny that another way would be better.
minus-squareCableMonster@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·5 months agoWhat is one definitive thing the government does better? I want a 100% solid thing, and not just a thing that they have a monopoly on.
Sure, why dont you start one and give away your labor to people that dont want to work as much as you?
If you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?
Because I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?
Do you think market economies are the only kind humanity has ever had?
No, but how is a market economy worse than what people did in the past?
Consider the thread we’re in. Housing perhaps should not be market driven
Do you really want government provided housing? The ones I am aware of are places like the projects and were the worst place to live (unless you were a drug dealer).
When imagining that the government do more can you not imagine that it do better?
Yes Americans have a shit government, they also don’t have a socialist government.
You’re pointing to the corrupt right wing hellscape you currently live in to deny that another way would be better.
What is one definitive thing the government does better? I want a 100% solid thing, and not just a thing that they have a monopoly on.