It wouldn’t, a perfect world would lack currency, where all basic needs are already provided for through infrastructure. A stateless, moneyless society is the ideal.

Not to mention Operation Gladio and Operation Condor.

That’s how all politics/legislation in New York works, especially the city. Trust me, I’ve spent my whole life here.

The end result for both is more content, though, and that’s what’s at the heart of OPs question.

I’m down for eliminating private land ownership. It behooves us all to treat it as the commons and create proper, sustainable management of our natural resources.

Have you looked at real estate across the country though? It’s not just metropolitan areas that saw insane price spikes due to supply being gobbled up and new construction not being nearly able to keep up pace with demand. You’re right in that it’s definitely down to ownership, but cornering the market requires owning (or effectively controlling the price of) all assets and that includes cutting off production, unless it’s at a controlled pace and part of a vertical monopoly anyway. But disruption would generally be bad for private equity right now, which, I believe, is why we’re seeing no investment here.

I would argue it’s less to do with being safe (look at the Florida condo collapses and tell me it’s not systemic) and more to do with choking the supply of new housing. Private equity in the US (Blackrock mainly) is the largest single owner of homes in the nation. It behooves them, and other institutional owners, to keep supply low since demand is inelastic. Putting out a message to VC firms that they’ll get buried if they invest in anything to help solve the housing crisis seems like it would be the most logical move for these giant financial institutions, and what individual VC is going to risk their entire portfolio to try and fuck over Blackrock? Not a single one could, even if they had the balls.

Because it’s a false equivalency here. The Oakland protests started peacefully before devolving due to police antagonism and some bad actors. These fascists used semis to blockade main roads and resorted immediately to violence, which is much closer to the Canadian blockade/Jan 6th than it is to what happened in Oakland.

I mean, the 2016 Oakland protests started peacefully. This doesn’t look like that. It looks more like the Canadian blockade since they had truckers block roads and resorted immediately to violence.

People aren’t opposed to facts, they’re opposed to false equivalency.