being agaist basic needs being provided is digusting.
Usually I'm pretty skeptical of these people but Jacob Anbinder on Twitter is someone who seems to generally have good politics in every other area and is very YIMBY and might be worth a follow. I think he recently posted something about Seattle's rent increases dropping massively following YIMBY prescriptions or whatever? That said, housing policy isn't something I really know that much about and the answer to me seems to be "why doesn't the state just build all the houses?"
I actually sort of struggle with this. As a squishy succdem/demsucc I think it's correct that people don't really give a shit about the more abstract ideas like stolen surplus labor and probably won't really ever. I know economic democracy is just as critical as national democracy and that a comprehensive socialist vision needs to include it but most American demands don't include nationalization in its current charges and even single-payer doesn't call for an NHS-style system. It is sort of weird to include the idea that socialism is allowing the working class majority to "run the world" but not really describe what that entails. I don't really have a strong take on this but until the current socdem crops win a big national policy (single payer seems like the most likely) I doubt we'll really see any such calls. Perhaps that's the failure of bougie electoral socialism.orwell said:
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Yeah, while i understand to Go the soc dem route, to accept the anti-communism from the right is problematic, they should Challenge that at least even if not identified with It.
Randomly caught the thread was bumped while searching out the wrestling thread and figured I'd drop the econ YIMBY narrative in. It's a basic econ supply/demand problem. Cities get increasing housing prices because they get an influx of new residents (new demand) and don't increase supply. Then when they DO build more homes, price of housing goes down. The issue with Seattle is that as the second tweet points out- the market is still vastly underserved in terms of raw #s of housing units -the current "empty apartment thing" is good but you have to keep building dense housing. Building mostly "high end" isn't so much an issue because of the hermit crab effect- when people move into a new place they leave the old one behind. But that takes time to happen - which is why Seattle has so many empty new places- people can't just move on a dime.
iirc Neera Tanden cites Piketty in one of the DNC emails but clearly didn't read it because she basically uses him to justify neoliberalism lol
Interesting, but yeah my POV was more to the west and more based on latam countries, my knowledge of the reality of the east is very limited. Only 5% of the brazil population knows some english (1% speaks fluently) and more in the groups i mentioned before, sure brazil is not all the coutries over here, but i see this trend in latin america, maybe mexico is different due to the border.
