• Brawndo
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    22 years ago

    Rent Control can only have one outcome. Decreased amount of available new or renovated rentals which coupled with an ever increasing demand for housing, creates some of the housing shortages we see in larger cities today.

    UBI can be an effective way to fight poverty, and would be an even more effective way to combat poverty if we implemented a Negative Income tax whereby all welfare programs are rolled into the funding.

    • @[email protected]M
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      52 years ago

      The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest revolution in history and led to an almost entirely equitable distribution of land ownership

      • Brawndo
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        32 years ago

        And how did that work out for the estimated 15-55 million people that died of starvation as a result of the “equitable distribution of land ownership”?

        Source

            • @[email protected]M
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              2 years ago

              Oh wow, all bourgeois press or capitalist state affiliated media. I’m sure they have no bias that influences their portrayal of communist china.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            What a childish response. So the famine didn’t occur because it’s documented on Wikipedia?

            The reasons for the famine are well understood and documented. I don’t think defending Mao is the way to go in regards to our modern housing crisis.

            The housing market issue is also well understood and documented. We know companies and investors have been buying more and more houses, driving up prices. We know wages have not kept pace with rising housing costs. We know the gap between rich and poor has been widening year after year. Why the fuck are we derailing the conversation?

            • @[email protected]M
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              12 years ago

              First off, I’m not denying the famine happened, aim just denying Wikipedia’s framing. The death counts are exaggerated and many were connected to devastation caused by the Civil War.

              Second off, I am not advocating we do mid 20th century agriculture practices and kill the sparrows after doing land reform.