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Re:Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing fac... by yonran on Saturday March 23, 2019 @03:36PM (#19471979)
It’s not the inequality of capital ownership that is the problem. It’s the inequality of land ownership (specifically zoned housing capacity). A few thousand hundred-millionaires hardly hurt people any more than a few thousand millionaires. But a few million middle-class homeowners hurts when they are not allowed to share their land with the landless. So the most worrysome inequality is the numbers of landed vs. landless, not millionaires vs. ten millionaires or hundred millionaires.
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Re:Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing fac... by sqrt17 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @05:10PM (#19472378)
> when they are not allowed to share their land with the landless.

this seems to be aggravated by zoning laws and NIMBYism in the US where localities will not tolerate high-density housing that is an eyesore but provides little homes to people who'd otherwise not have one (or have to pay higher prices than they otherwise would)

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