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Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem by Wytwwww on Thursday June 06, 2024 @12:25PM (#40599317)
> A lot of squatters want to abolish the possibility of someone having to pay rent to another person to have a place to live

That's exactly how you end up with no new or maintained housing, utilities and other services. How do you imagine system like that working besides a totalitarian government directly taking over all private property and rationing housing? (I assure the housing situation in Spain is not even remotely as bad as it was in the USSR).

> don't have a logical counter-argument.

Trying to form logical arguments that refute completely absurd and irrational ones is not particularly productive...

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Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem by TotalCrackpot on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:23PM (#40600041)
Anarchist Catalonia had this type of property norm for about 2 years during Spanish Civil War and it indeed had an economic growth.

>Trying to form logical arguments that refute completely absurd and irrational ones is not particularly productive...

It's not, but my arguments are not absurd and irrational, they are rational.

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