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it is too late, it is already become rich people gold mine/golden egg that they wont let go no matter what because how stable the investment is, not to mention not taxable when empty
band together is just impossible now, they learn from french revolution so well. Make sure average joe will be out on the street if they cant receive their next wage, and what you can do against government who owns all the firearms, your whole data about you and your family so you can easily blackmailed while you marching with empty stomach without place to sleep ?
Unfortunately the government has all the tanks. And historically people will tolerate nearly anything short of death - often via food scarcity - before they actually put their own necks on the line.
This is the thing with Lemmy - there's all these veiled calls for violence which seem like an astroturfing campaign to foment social unrest from users on weird instances which should be banned.
You don't need tanks - we live in a democracy - you can band together and form a political party to replace the government, and convince people to vote for you. That's how it works.
And then what? They would protest?
I agree in principle, though I have a hard time seeing it going any other way than real estate developers getting even richer because now they just need to ~~bribe~~ lobby whatever politician is in charge of it for all the best deals
Given a significant portion of politicians own investment and rental properties, I'd be nervous about how well they would actually handle owning all the housing supply. I think there are corruption issues and policies to protect the public needed before the government should own significant amounts of housing.
We already got that. Municipal governments have control of the housing market. It's called "zoning" and their opinion on housing is "no."
Would the government have the power to force people to move?