• jerkface
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    11 months ago

    Any time capital is “right” from the point of view of human well-being, it is a coincidence. Our needs are secondary and only important to the degree that they affect capital. Capital will never provide adequate housing on its own because it depends on the realistic threat of homelessness to exploit the working class and extract vastly more value could be obtained without coercion.

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      11 months ago

      Capital would provide adequate housing right now but zoning laws prevent it