▲ 284 ▼ The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts is the banks (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) Land value tax would fix this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainrob@mastodon.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) @Zoboomafoo @J12 reforms don't work. Change the system and change the rules. #eattherich permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] captainrob@mastodon.social 1 point 2 years ago @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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainrob@mastodon.social 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) @Zoboomafoo @J12 reforms don't work. Change the system and change the rules. #eattherich permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] captainrob@mastodon.social 1 point 2 years ago @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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] captainrob@mastodon.social 1 point 2 years ago @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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainrob@mastodon.social 1 point 2 years ago @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 permalink fedilink source parent