Re:California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when facto...
by obstacle1 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:05PM
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>Owners win because we live in capitalist society
NYC exists under the same capitalist system as SF or LA or wherever.
Nothing you have described (need to drive, no clean water, etc.) applies to NYC.
Therefore, your gripes aren't caused by the capitalist system you are blaming.
Re:California has the USA’s highest poverty rate, when facto...
by throwaway743824 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:59PM
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I guess one can say it's a similar system. But, while definitions might differ, I'm not sure how capitalist I would call one of the largest government run subway systems in the world [0], half century long water tunneling projects [1] or the longest running rent control system in the US [2].
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2012/06/03/infrastru... [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/nyregion/10tunnel.html [2] http://www.tenant.net/Oversight/50yrRentReg/history.html
Doesn't matter. Owners win because we live in capitalist society, and capitalism means you must be an owner to get full rights. Non-gentry are second class citizens (no free movement, no access to clean water, no right to work the land, no right to build shelter).
No free movement: I can't travel to many places without a car because property owners decided only people who own cars should be legally allowed to access a place.
No access to clean water: water is a resource owned by corporations, the people drink at the corporation's pleasure.
No right to work/shelter ones self: all land has been sold off, new people born into this world must first serve the gentry until the gentry decide to pay them enough to buy some land of their own.