german rental market is so broken you literally need personal connections and social networking just to get a shot at the good apartments.
congrats leftists you successfully decommodified housing. the cold impersonal market is dead. welcome to pure nepotism and who-you-know feudalism.
@hecubian_devil please, please, please do not use state power as a cathartic expression of equality, glory and the value of human life! please just use the state to create a free and prosperous society and then go start a band or something as a cathartic expression of equality, glory and life!
Why can't they just leave business alone? Like why do they need to have an opinion on who scans an item? Just live your lives and stop trying to ruin everything.
Leaving primitive tribes uncontacted is fundamentally contrary to human dignity and equality. Their way of life is worse. We have the ability to improve it, but choose not to, because we do not really, truly believe they are human. We treat them as animals on a game reserve.
Cities have so many enemies. Artists who want total control over how they look and feel. Leftists who loathe the inequality cities always create. Conservatives who fear the dynamism and energy. Busybodies who want to know everyone’s business.
It’s very hard to save cities.
If we ultimately make it off the planet in any significant numbers and duration, people will eventually assume the garden of Eden story was written as an allegory about Earth.
In a new essay, I argue that the widespread embrace of an ethos of “speaking truth to power” too often produces intellectual inquiry that is lazy, self-deceived, and self-defeating: https://t.co/hPatvZub3Q