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Re:The Sixties Come Back to Life in "Everything Is Now" by coldpie on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:35AM (#44258308)
Nope. Unlike the wealthy, the people who need the cheaper housing do not have the time or money to spend lobbying for their own interests. The wealthy are taking all of our resources[1] and spending them[2] to turn our water & energy into computer programs that will steal and extract even more wealth from the people who actually create things.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/private-investment-in-art...

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Re:The Sixties Come Back to Life in "Everything Is Now" by dnissley on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:45AM (#44258424)
Who shows up to the public comment meetings to register their complaints about new housing being built? Who empowered those meetings to exist in the first place? Who created the laws about needing an environmental review for a building being built in the middle of an existing city?

It was everyday people. Not the 1%.

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