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Even ants and bees give everyone a house, food, and a job (with the majority of the hive/colony population having time off and rest at any given time). These people are advocating for us to be less evolved than an ant. Per EO Wilson, the guy who studied these fellas
They also kill all the males, do they not? ๐
Girlboss
Wel well well, let me add that to my list of interesting ant facts.
The ant species Brachymyrmex has the largest brain size relative to its body size among all known organisms
Replace home with right to a parcel of land for 100 years and then I agree.
You can even go full evolutionary logic and say every creature has the right (and obligation) to fight to get the resources it needs to survive.
I find it interesting how in every single video game that involves fostering a population, it's up to you to make sure everyone is housed. Too logical and efficient for billionaires, I guess.
What I love about those video games is that they teach us very clearly that a command economy leads to prosperity (unless you suck as a player I guess), but then billionaires tell us no, free market capitalism and trickle-down are the way we have to go.
"Trickle-down" was a rebranding campaign.
It used to be called Horse and Sparrow Economics, with the idea being the Horses eat the grain, and Sparrows peck their meals from the horseshit.
The wealth layer has been playing this game against the poors for a long time.
I mean, the moral is that free markets are a fiction when primary accumulation is illegal.
I can't simply claim a vacant property at the clearance rate. I need to bargain with a landlord at a cartel price. And thanks to public-private collusion, we routinely tax, trade, and subsidize properties at three entirely different figures.
Every economy is a command economy. The question you have to ask is who is in control.
Along those same lines, they didn't put parking lots in Sim City. They tried, but it completely fucked everything.
The had to set rent to 0 in Cities Skylines abd completely remove the economy in Dwarf Fortress, otherwise the player would be confused why they would build enough vacant luxury condos to house everyone, while more and more of the population went homeless.
Might be wrong, but I think in Cities Skylines all you're doing is zoning the city, and it's up to the people to build houses and live (or have their house burn down)
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Like, what are the other options? Homes seem mandatory for societal and economic interaction.
I don't care about the house, I just want land that I can live on.
The idea of ownership is kinda silly.
Right? "My ancestors beat up your ancestors, so I deserve to live in wealth and opulence, while you deserve to be my slave"
It really is pretty fucked up.
There's that poem(?) about that
"""
"Get off this estate."
"What for?"
"Because it's mine."
"Where did you get it?"
"From my father."
"Where did he get it?"
"From his father."
"And where did he get it?"
"He fought for it."
"Well, I'll fight you for it."
"""
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9358361-get-off-this-estate-what-for-because-it-s-mine-where
The Dude would just say fuck it and not even bother arguing and tell Brandt that the Big Lebowski told him to take any one of his rental properties as The Dude's own.
