If rich people find something they like, they want to keep it all to themselves, it's a fact of nature.
Look at California, rich people block housing all the time because despite claiming to be progressive, they want California to be the world's biggest country club.
I sometimes wonder if the rich truly drink their own koolaid. Do some really believe their half baked ideas are true innovation and it isn't all the proles scrambling to implement them are doing the real work?
Do some really believe their half baked ideas are true innovation
100% yes they do
100% yes they do
what if it was mario... but chris pratt? checkmate atheists this is why im a billionaire
what if galadrielle, but we pronounce it like a spanish telenovela and she displays zero emotion or acting skill and teleports everywhere and there are 80 plotholes? checkmate atheists this is why im a billionaire :lord-bezos-amused:
:melon-musk: Hello fellow comedy enthusiasts! Why are you booing?!
:dave-chapelle-cool:"They're not booing, they're saying elon booeno"
A lot do, yeah. The ones who invented the lie sure didn't, and acted accordingly (saying it publicly, but taking steps to make sure their own excesses didn't implode everything).
Their descendants though? They seriously thought that's how reality works, and plenty of people who became wealthy subsequently are steeped in the propaganda that's accumulated over the years that this hasn't collapsed. But the collapse is coming, eventually.
Because it will be a wasteland in a matter of decades due to droughts and wildfires
maybe if they quit growing saudi cowfeed they could accommodate people needing water to drink
Even if southern California's whole agricultural sector was shut down annual water supplies are still decreasing and snowpack in the rockies is getting lower every year. Also, the people who work in agriculture are typically poorer and live in less expensive, marginal places, so by cutting the agriculture industry you'd be forcing more people to move into the city where there's already not enough housing. Quite frankly if you wanted to "fix" homelessness in SF and LA at this point you'd either have to expel homeless people or eminent domain some rich peoples' houses to build state owned highrises and hope they don't end up like every state operated highrise in American history. I'm in favor of the latter but it would require making the highrises into state operated condos and forcing rich people to live in them Singapore style.
Addendum: I don't think anyone should live in the deserts of the southwestern US. Especially not Arizona.
urban water use has literally gone down even as population rose, with more improvements to be had in cutting lawns & recreational water use. y'all don't seem to grasp how many orders of magnitude agriculture & industry outstrip the plebs drinking our little liters of water & taking our little showers.
whether California could sustainably grow enough food for itself is not a question capitalism is prepared to answer but being a major (unsustainable, granted) exporter i dont think its automatically a closed case.
and do not speak to me of californian urban planning. there is plenty of space if the car is killed and public sector invested in :very-smart:
Ok, but the "plenty of space" is also an issue in and of itself. Our current low density private housing system makes everything so spread out that people get pushed to the periphery because there's "plenty of space" all the way outside the city proper while inside the city land is controlled by a small cohort of capitalists. Many people need to be near the city because it is where jobs are, capitalist or communist society. Stalin couldn't make the villages around Khabarovsk as economically valuable to the USSR as Moscow even if he tried.
Building high density housing in the city is the only thing that makes sense practically or else we will gradually engulf all habitable land in the area for the sake of everyone having a private 2 bedroom home and living further from each other. However, highrises without proper care have failed spectacularly just about everywhere in the US, largely because they were used as segregation measures. That's why I'm saying we need Singapore style highrises where celebrities and formerly homeless people are neighbors.
Also yeah 100% about killing cars that's a given. :train-shining:
i prefer khrushchyovka scale shit when its not immediately geographically necessary. singapore and the like are extremely constrained physical spaces, but you could stuff LA into fractions of the size without complicated engineering
if the US simply spent as much as Saudi Arabia the issue wouldn't even exist lol
the %GDP Saudis use for desalination, if applied to US, would recreate the entire Colorado River
Eric Adams might be the most conservative Democrat in the country and that is certainly saying something
I want the person who drives the limousine to be paid a good wage and the person sitting in the back of the limousine to continue to use their discretionary funds to go to our restaurants, to our hotels.
"Just think of how much more food we'll sell if, instead of spreading the wealth out to let everyone enjoy going to a restaurant, we give it all to one dude! As hard as he must work to acquire that money, he's going to be mighty hungry! I mean, people with billions of dollars certainly wouldn't just hoard it to buy or bully politicians with, if that's what you're thinking..."
to continue to use their discretionary funds
this phrase is giving me the fucking chills right now
Motherfucker the rich spend proportionally way less of their "discretionary funds", most of that shit goes to fucking tax havens, face the wall you fucking ghoul. God I fucking hate liberals.
Do people rich enough to have personal drivers even go to restaurants unless it's some big social event? I can't imagine the livelihood of the average Shake Shack employee in Manhattan is dependent upon some billionaire.
Does Eric Adams think real life is like the game Yakuza 0 where if you're really rich then money flies off you in big cash explosions
They go on rare occasions for nothing but PR
“Look at mr. big chungus billionaire man! He ordered a Big Mac!” :soypoint-1:
He continued: “I want the person who drives the limousine to be paid a good wage and the person sitting in the back of the limousine to continue to use their discretionary funds to go to our restaurants, to our hotels.”
I want NYC to be an adult playground full of servants for the obscenely rich who got wealthy off pointless stock market schemes.
He also took aim at the New York City press corps, claiming they always “look at the worst part of our day and highlight that over and over again.”
Its real funny that he wants to complain about press coverage when they do everything in their power to push the "city on fire" narrative that benefits him.
Cut him some slack, he's a pig, he's not that bright to begin with
Pigs are actually pretty smart as far as animals go. They're really callous and cold when it comes to other life forms around them, but still smart. :biggus-piggus:
This is just "love it or leave it", done by a so-called liberal.
Reactionaries try not to tell your opponent to go away when you lose an argument challenge (impossible!)
So called? This is the most perfect liberal position I can think of
just speaking and acting like the loyal servant of the bourgeoisie, that he is.
Going to NYC and just straight up icing every motherfucker in a uniform or a suit is morally correct and also self-defense
Almost said ":fedposting:" but honestly you're 1000% right, mainly because no matter what you accomplish they'd turn it into another 9/11 guaranteed
