• ShareMySims
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    7 days ago

    No reason whatsoever anyone should own 5 “homes” (at that point they are not homes, they are a commodity).

    Housing is a human right, and it needs to be entirely decommodified.

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      7 days ago

      Preach.

      Housing is a human right.

      Private land ownership violates that human right.

      All land should be held in trust for the people as a whole and managed by the government for the benefit of the people. Including the houses and apartments on that land.

      We should not have private homeowners. We should not have private landlords. We should have socialized housing, just like we should have socialized medicine. Apartment buildings and neighborhoods should be managed by tenant associations, with strict legal limits on their authority over individual tenants, and government facilitators to provide expert advice on building management and keep meetings running smoothly.

      But we are a long way from implementing that.

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        7 days ago

        I think I would swap the word government for collective, but otherwise I completely agree, and yeah, we’re a long way away unfortunately. But we can hope, and inform others, and join/invest in projects that are working towards that end!

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          6 days ago

          The government should be the collective. The fact that it isn’t is one of the roots of the problem, and the FPTP electoral systems of most western countries keeps it that way.

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            6 days ago

            I don’t disagree, but I do think the anarchist idea of a government (which is what I personally had in mind) is so far removed from what most people today can envisage when they hear that word, that it’s still worth differentiating.