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The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts is the banks
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to sit on property. There’s an old fast food restaurant near my neighborhood, boarded up, trash everyone, it’s a eyesore to the community. The owner wants an unreasonable amount for it. It’s been sitting empty for 10 years.
The government needs to step in, tell the landlord to rent the place out, sell it or we’re going to take it and turn it into affordable housing or a park.
Land value tax would fix this
@Zoboomafoo @J12 reforms don't work. Change the system and change the rules. #eattherich
No thank you, I don't subscribe to revolutionary ideologies that want to tear down the system then figure out what to build on the ashes
Not all anti-capitalist ideologies are like that. Some of them have a clear vision of what to build: workplace democracy, social ownership of the means of production and common ownership of land and natural resources
Those are all great goals, I just think that the idea that everything needs to be torn down before it can be rebuilt is self defeating.
@Zoboomafoo Then you're doomed to subsist in a system that will chew you up and spit you out without a care in the world. “Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” #eattherich