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Re:On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf] by lljk_kennedy on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:39AM (#46645452)
Failure of the markets, and capitalism in general. Surely if the markets worked properly there would be ample housing due to demand?
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Re:On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf] by _heimdall on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:53AM (#46645547)
In much of the west we don't really have markets in any useful sense. Overregulation and financialization ruin markets, and we've allowed both to creep into effectively every market that matters.
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