maonu

sort of interesting that we go to reddit ("the people's site") for reviews—as if manufacturers (the experts) are the "other side"... consumer choice is the common grounds

1920s new york was crazy you could have a greenwich village apartment and a summer farm and feel poor at school

it's an issue of fairness—homeowners/old people write laws to artificially restrict supply, driving up their property values. Young people have none of the same opportunities.

Not to mention it's demoralizing to see old people going on vacation 24/7 with what they squeezed out of you.

I mean yeah, acting entitled while depending on people in poorer countries to feed your lifestyle is something to chew on.

>60% of Americans are homeowners, it's not "the rich"

Plenty of middle-class Americans are part of the problem.

it's an issue of fairness and the >60% who do own homes are the ones causing problems for the rest.

It's not really about pricing. Making it about pricing = the very people profiting make themselves out to be victims

Mary was a Jewish mother

a farewell to utopias... </3

memes used to be funny jokes to all, now they are polemic in nature (poles?)

universal appeals (analogy) => polemics (polarity)
(dissolution of liberalism)

We should probably address "a better future with plentiful food" instead of being nostalgic for coal mining

This person made $470k doing nothing and they're still complaining 🤷‍♂️

Some of it's just entitlement.

65% of Americans are homeowners so prices going up = more wealth for them and more spending via home equity

not really a disconnect.

It's completely unfair for the 35% but if you bought in 2000 you pay those lower prices with the profit on your home.

you made $470k doing nothing and you're still playing the victim? 😭

"house prices and rent have both gone up 50% over the same period, eating into household grocery budgets."

65% of Americans are homeowners so increased home prices = more wealth for them. And home equity!

middle class + upper middle class are the majority 🤷 median income is not "deprived"

anyway real wages up across all

but it's up...?

citing one specific thing instead of surveying a range of things... which is precisely what economic data already does.

capital is getting a larger share than labor because of real estate.

less about worker income and more homeowners writing laws to thwart building housing.

www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

food got cheaper...

he wasn't exactly good at political maneuvering, either...

carl schmitt was the original "just do things" 😐

everyone's like "be kind" NO discern an enemy!

they're consumerists at the core. "Society (the government) has an ethical obligation to provide citizens with opportunities for consumption" vs. "the fruits of labor should be borne fairly"

it's not a good instinct, it unravels with a <1 min explanation. It's only allowed because it goes unchallenged and repeated by demagogues!

politics is ultimately defined by action

reasoned argument is only one means of claiming power. Buckle up!

disappearing people to prisons in el salvador, mass grave with bodies zip tied outside a hospital in gaza, and they're calling AI "fascist" because it's taken their jobs drawing cartoon furry porn...

we made AI god he's woke though so we have to perform emergency brain surgery to make him more racist

"community" different from "society" apparently traces back to Tönnies and has come to be a fantasy of carving out a more intimate world within complex "society"

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Plato figuring out how soulmates work:

food prices are down compared to wages