Just heard another one like 15 minutes ago

Must have been a transformer, twitter handle @grid_events is the only place i’ve seen mention Utility Power Outage event. Thought i was losing it at first lol

I appreciate this reply. There are cold hard truths to confront, and plenty of ideas about how it should work, it's just disappointing that this is what we're resigned to.

There’s a lot of problems out there man. There are more than 20x the amount of empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. The younger generations are fucked because of profit incentives, and now the cartel ass algorithms are squeezing every paycheck because rent is being decided by soulless code. Yeah it costs money to make houses no shit.

Zillow or BlackRock can buy 1,000 houses, and that’s just a drop in the bucket to them. They can swallow up an entire community like it’s nothing, and then what? they effectively control the regional markets? (I realize there are zillow lawsuits going on, fingers crossed) Isn’t that like, fucked? Most of this younger generation struggles to just pay rent, let alone save up for a down payment before a mortgage. I feel like this is grade school, literal monopoly board game logic. We’re literally the most prosperous nation on the planet and the majority of people are just fucked. God forbid they dream of owning a home. Ah fuck it.

what zero media literacy does to a mf'er

…what?

Rightist Trumpian nonsense? No dude, i’m saying giant corporations are destroying the housing market, and they’re deliberately buying propagandist opinion-piece writers to say “corporations aren’t really the problem, people are scapegoating!!”

Pretty sure Trump (and every facet of the capitalist power structure) is pro-corporation. Also, don’t ever post an opinion piece calling it an article

Opinion piece by a writer with such wonderful articles like “Buses shouldn’t be free” and “the billionaire’s dilemma” and “everyone shouldn’t have a say”. Some real appeal to authority shit opinions there.

Housing/shelter is commodified by entities so wealthy that of course it seems illogical to a regular person that can’t gobble up vacant homes. BlackRock can play the long game, someone under threat of homelessness can’t. Multi-billions is unfathomable wealth, and they absorb every single “affordable” property like it’s nothing, manipulate and inflate the market, and no matter what they make out like bandits. I don’t know what kind of person goes to bat for economy melting corporate greed other than someone invested in their schemes, foh

lets get another paragraph about why u don’t care