Yep, they denied young americans the right to hot-bunk in firetrap rooms still under construction (that was reported of one contractor around here who employed undocumented workers). Just the way they denied young americans the right to work backbreaking jobs for less than minimum wage with negligible safety equipment. Totally on the undocumented workers, not on the people who employed or housed them. (And on the rest of us, for enjoying lower prices as a result)
in terms of "[immigrants] taking houses" it ought to asserted that, due to labor costs, a vast majority of those *making* houses (and living complexes) are immigrants.
I wouldn't say breakdown so much as a distillation into its purist form. "A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality." But like the scorpion in the fable, it can't stop itself from stinging the frog carrying it across the river. When Wall street is functioning properly, it provides a useful mechanism to take unused capital and find productive uses for it. Profits that are excess to the uses of one company can become dividends to in turn be invested in other productive enterprises. But it has become swollen and cancerous. A bloated pile of money that vastly exceeds it's capacity to find actual productive investments, so it repeatedly inflates asset bubbles leading to ever greater concentrations of wealth. If the investment banks controlled ~ 1/5 the percentage of GDP that they currently do, the economy would work better for almost everybody.
Getting rid of ~1/3 of the workforce building housing, yeah, that should solve the supply issue. /s
OTOH, affordable housing has ALWAYS been a profit center. The term "slumlord" for a landlord that specialized in cheap, poor quality housing is NOT a new one. But now, of course it is major Wall Street firms doing this.
Yep, they denied young americans the right to hot-bunk in firetrap rooms still under construction (that was reported of one contractor around here who employed undocumented workers). Just the way they denied young americans the right to work backbreaking jobs for less than minimum wage with negligible safety equipment. Totally on the undocumented workers, not on the people who employed or housed them. (And on the rest of us, for enjoying lower prices as a result)
in terms of "[immigrants] taking houses" it ought to asserted that, due to labor costs, a vast majority of those *making* houses (and living complexes) are immigrants.
"while ignoring the landlords’ private equity firms and corporate buyers who have actually turned affordable housing into a profit machine"
Breaking Points did a great job on this yesterday...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypt9AYmdtkI&t=496s
Also: that header image is hilarious 😂
Christ, what an asshole.
# ...Blaming anyone convenient while helping billionaires get richer is the whole scam.
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Can't sum it up better than that.
I think it points to a breakdown of capitalism rather than a problem with immigration.
I wouldn't say breakdown so much as a distillation into its purist form. "A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality." But like the scorpion in the fable, it can't stop itself from stinging the frog carrying it across the river. When Wall street is functioning properly, it provides a useful mechanism to take unused capital and find productive uses for it. Profits that are excess to the uses of one company can become dividends to in turn be invested in other productive enterprises. But it has become swollen and cancerous. A bloated pile of money that vastly exceeds it's capacity to find actual productive investments, so it repeatedly inflates asset bubbles leading to ever greater concentrations of wealth. If the investment banks controlled ~ 1/5 the percentage of GDP that they currently do, the economy would work better for almost everybody.
Getting rid of ~1/3 of the workforce building housing, yeah, that should solve the supply issue. /s
OTOH, affordable housing has ALWAYS been a profit center. The term "slumlord" for a landlord that specialized in cheap, poor quality housing is NOT a new one. But now, of course it is major Wall Street firms doing this.