@SocDem_Erika They can only sell to willing buyers, which is why landlords in rent control areas have often just neglected or abandoned their buildings or even set them on fire for the insurance money. This was all common in NY in the 70s, and none of it made life better for tenants.
@sarahtexe I didn’t vote for Trump, but it may be the only good thing to come out of his administration. The DoE has objectively been a failure by every measure, this shouldn’t even be controversial if you actually care about the quality of education.
Not entirely related, but a great piece of historical trivia is that you could find camels in the wilds of Texas until around the 1950s.
Jefferson Davis imported camels to use for cavalry during the civil war. They never ended up being used, but they survived for about a century in Texas before finally dying out.
There’s been a giraffe just roaming the Texas hill country for two weeks and they FOUND her just hanging out, living her best life. People were spotting her on game cameras, can you imagine?
Because the United States is the only developed country to reject a national incorporation law, leaving incorporation instead to the states, which faced jurisdictional competition that compelled them to adopt business friendly incorporation laws (or alternatively, to lose capital to other states, as Delaware is now experiencing).
This is *precisely* why big businesses allied with progressive intellectuals in the early twentieth century to create the federal regulatory state.
Bureaucratic regulation was introduced, in part, to undermine the regulatory mechanism of the tort system by providing legal liability protections from damage their activities cause, so long as they are operating within the confines of the regulatory code.
In a 7-2 decision, SCOTUS said Bayer can’t be held liable under state law for failing to warn about the alleged cancer risk since a federal regulator (the Environmental Protection Agency) didn’t require RoundUp to carry a warning label.
I suppose with less demand for housing, there’d be fewer homes built, so we’d have, if anything, less housing supply than we currently have.
But if you’re trying to suggest that housing supply would *increase*, then that would be like saying “imagine how many more Wal-Marts we would have if fewer people shopped there.”
Politicians literally have people believing that multi-million dollar rental properties have always been mom-n-pop operations until just recently, when private equity firms suddenly started buying them up.
“They’re building an entire city — with no permits.”
Greg Abbott says the developers don’t have approval to do any of the construction they’re talking about.
No permits. No authorization.
You don’t get to build a city outside the rules everyone else follows.
The 40-hour workweek is indeed unnatural. It was introduced by Henry Ford about a century ago when he was the largest employer in the world, forcing other companies to adopt similar schedules to compete for labor.
The 40-hour work week is not "natural."
It is the political outcome of a society driven not by human needs, but by the wants of capital—by what is "profitable."
We do not work for ourselves, but rather for an alien social relationship that cares only about surplus value.