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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by Cthulhu_ on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:42AM (#44757508)
The underlying assumption is that of capitalism, that is, that things should be profitable or at least self-sustaining. But if you do that, things like the USPS donkey train [0] would be stripped, the US military would / should be reduced to a fraction of its current size or down to nothing, etc.

Independent news should be completely free from capitalist interests.

[0] https://facts.usps.com/8-mile-mule-train-delivery/

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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by Zefiroj on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:51AM (#44757643)
> But if you do that, things like the USPS donkey train [0] would be stripped, the US military would / should be reduced to a fraction of its current size or down to nothing, etc.

and that is a problem because? These are funded by tax dollars collected. It's impossible for people to stop paying for them whether they make sense or not.

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