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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And in a country with practically infinite money, why don't we ensure housing? We have infinite money, we could house literally everyone, but we don't. Why not?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infinite money is not the same as infinite resources. We can't just create houses out of thin air just because we have money. We still need tangible things like lumber and concrete to actually build the house.

With that said, we could certainly provide housing for everyone in the U.S. It's not an issue of resource scarcity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not even housing scarcity, there's already more available units than there are unhoused people, the problem is property owners who are eating properties up they have no intentions of living in themselves to collect rent on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We have the houses already. We don't actually need to create them, though we sure could if need be.

[–] anlumo 3 points 1 year ago

It's a way to force the masses to be productive for their capitalist overlords. Overt slavery isn't acceptable any more, but saying “you're going to live under a bridge unless you comply” still is.