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IMO, I would accept this compromise solution:
  • Freeze the rent for existing rent stabilized apartments (since that's what the commies want, and there are too many of them to argue against)
  • Deregulate zoning and allow developers to build freely on property that they own without the neighbors getting to hold it up
I'd want some sort of legal guarantee that they can't just re-regulate those private properties, too.
In principle, though, I'm fine with compromises that involve increasing the maximum level of private property rights.
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I want to make minarchism a popular term. I think it could catch on, since obviously capitalism (the word) isn't working for young people.
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42 sats \ 16 replies \ @kepford 14h
I fear our descendants will have to learn the hard way about how amazing capitalism actually is by losing it.
Its weird how something responsible for so much good can be denegrated when government education and entertainment demonize it for 50+ years.
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My hope is that we can learn the lesson vicariously by watching Europe go over the cliff.
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42 sats \ 10 replies \ @kepford 14h
Hasn't worked yet. We saw the USSR.
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76 sats \ 9 replies \ @kepford 14h
Have my own theories about why that didn't work.
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I think Europe is pretty entrenched in our minds as a peer culture. It might seem less like it's happening to some alien culture.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 1h
True, as it should be. We have a lot to thank them for and we stopped teaching positively about Western Civilization when I was growing up. I'm still unlearning non-sense I was taught.
What are they?
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76 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford 13h
The short version. The victors (US) didn't believe that socialism was the primary reason the Soviet Union failed. They believe it was the USA. They don't actually believe socialism is completely rotten.
I say this because I have seen very little actual mainstream discussion of the failures of socialism. It was mostly about the US spending them into the ground. Not the failures of central planning. Many in government are socialists they just don't admit it.
42 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 13h
Sounds like NYC will be a better example.
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If NYC collapses they'll just find something else to blame
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Obviously they'll blame all the greedy capitalists who live there.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 1h
Yeah... I do think you are right.
Its quite interesting to watch this character in NYC and how he obviously a demagogue telling people what they want to hear. Its a tough situation that was created by the very same ideas that this guy is pushing.
There's a fundamental flaw in humans in that we have a really hard time putting ourselves in the shoes of others. My dad never had wealth. He was born poor. Literally a cabin at home. His family was the poorest in the small town in Oklahoma. He never finished High School. But he worked hard and taught me to work and one thing he said to me that has stuck with me was that "you don't have to be rich to be greedy". He said, "Some of the greediest people I have ever met were poor".
We all want more for less. Its not just the business man. I want to be paid more. My boss wants to increase profits. We are all competing. We are all greedy to some extent. I'm not a Randian. I don't think greed is good. But I do think it is in every man.
It's been around for a long time. I think it's easier to sell young people on libertarianism, in general.
The first principles approach resonates best before people have formed a bunch of ad hoc rationalizations for all the government interventions.
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I think the libertarian party has been around for too long in the US and thus the word libertarian has lots its power. Something new and edgy (especially the connection to "anarchism") may be attractive to some disaffected youth who'd otherwise look for solutions in communism
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Then don't pussyfoot around it. Just push real private property anarchism on the youth.
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too scary for the normies
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The youth you should target will be ok with something provocative.
Normies are a waste of time. They'll just follow along once the people who matter are convinced.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 13h
Indeed.
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10 sats \ 8 replies \ @redban 14h
sounds like a good plan to me. fuck'em greedy nyc landlords
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Why don't you go build your own house to live in, or so that someone else can live in, rather than telling other people what to do?
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22 sats \ 2 replies \ @redban 14h
in my experience of 17 years dealing with landlords in nyc, i can tell you have no clue what you're talking about
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You didn't answer my question
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Yes they did. You dont know what you are talking about. Fuck the rentseeking landlords.
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communist
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Libertarian moron. Sometimes free markets don't work. Especially when it comes to housing.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @keele 6h
Have you read The Road To Serfdom by Hayek? Anyone trying to convince me free markets aren't the best would have to make a compelling argument how Hayek is wrong. Because all I have ever seen is more central planning, more restrictions and more interventions and the outcome has been exactly as predicted by Hayek. Particularly hard resonates the point that people stop trying to improve their own lives by working and improving their skills and instead people become increasingly political.
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Hayek is wrong- the truth is sometimes the role of governments crucial to the performance of a nations economy and prosperity.
How is the US military industrial combine going to fare without a supply of rare earths?
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Crony Capitalism has failed. The mixed economy is the only credible solution. Its too complicated for some to understand, but intervention is required in some markets.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Sandman 9h
Capitalism isn't working for youth. Just wondering what generations coming will experience.
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CRONY capitalism is a disease that has infected the west since neoliberalism introduced it. The bankers took over nearly all western democracies. Ever since rents and house prices have escalated and productivity, infrastructure and manufacturing have steadily declined.
The mixed economy is ideal. Its hard for Libertarian extremists to understand but just look at Rare Earths and you might start to get it.
Free markets do NOT give the best results in some scenarios. In some scenarios government intervention gives the best result.
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