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Half of all renters in the US make major, long-lasting sacrifices to afford housing. A basic failing of US capitalism. Many millions suffer so a small minority - landlords - profit. The system is the (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by jimmydoreisalefty to c/[email protected]

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Half of all renters in the US make major, long-lasting sacrifices to afford housing. A basic failing of US capitalism. Many millions suffer so a small minority - landlords - profit. The system is the problem.

Source: https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1776718498519003278

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

"Worked an extra job" and "worked a side hustle like uber or lift" are one in the same, add them up and they are second, so we are forced to work 2 jobs for minimum wage (as in minimum to survive). When are we going to dox all the billionaires and burn down their houses?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

A lot of information is public, like property records, flight data, corporate records, etc. All the information needs to be tracked down.

[–] Etterra 2 points 9 months ago

Good luck. Historically that kind of thing won't happen unless significant numbers of people - say over 50% - are literally starving to death. The rich fuckers are keeping their greed juuuuust enough in check to keep the number of disorganized desperate people from becoming an actual threat.