You can have cooperatives right now.

Let’s call the capitalists on the yachts billionaires.

I am defending the capitalistic view that markets are key to wealth distribution. Socialists and communists agree. That’s why they want to replace them.

My point is that there needs to be competition on all markets. There must be enough housing that rent becomes cheap.

For that to happen, lemmies have to vote for politicians who change zoning laws to allow cheap housing.

Instead I see lemmies having fun with revolutions, new technologies and debates about the inclusion of anarchists. Those are all beautiful dancing partners but they won’t reduce rent because there won’t be a revolution.

It’s the other way round. The fear of being left out makes the lemmies dance off a cliff.

(I know, the movie was fake.)

The capitalist sees that the lemmies keep dancing without wondering why the music is playing.

Sometimes you have a female to female cable.

To prevent starving, establish UBI.

Desalination is cheap enough for human consumption. It can be too expensive to grow food but food can be imported.

They have deserts for solar energy and cheap workers. What else do they need?

To stay obvious, what’s fascinating is that those networks are small, its members the most intelligent people available and they meet each other regularly in person at conferences.

Why do they accept the lock-in?

To mention the obvious, it’s the same network effect that keeps people on X and Reddit.

Controversial: how can illegal immigrants send money home but regular workers live paycheck to paycheck?

Rent would be cheaper if renters would unionize and wouldn’t spend above an agreed on limit.

It’s so hard to coordinate that only some workers can ask billionaires for better deals. Why? Why is not everybody ashamed that they cannot coordinate with their neighbors?

Roman’s walked out of town once a year to remind the elite of their value. The west models itself after the Roman Republic but tries to skip on the hard parts.