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"Between 2013 and 2019, average home prices increased by 47% while wages rose only 16%. The affordable housing shortage has caused countless families to be trapped in a vicious cycle where a seemingly good job is no longer able to cover basic necessities after a few years.
In July, 1-in-3 renters did not make a full on-time rent payment. The figures for homeowners were almost as high. As mass evictions are poised to ravage communities throughout the U.S., there are calls for the federal government to step up and renew the moratorium."
The bourgeoisie simply aren't of the same reality as us anymore. They're at such a level of obscene wealth and power that these tremendous issues just don't seem to bother them in the slightest. No FDR new deal is coming, tens of millions of people will be left to fend for themselves.
When I was a kid learning about the French Revolution, I thought “how could the aristocracy be so stupid? How did they not see what was coming?” I guess now I know lol
we've hit full "let them eat cake" moment with that article a few weeks back about how hard it is to live in a summer home through the quarantine because it just isn't equipped for it, and the lady of the house has to take care of the kids herself with only one nanny to help; its just hard, y'know?
I think they're hoping for banks to own all the houses and apartments and for Amazon to own all the small businesses at the end of this. They're consolidating power just like what happened after the 2008 recession.
it's been really informative to recalibrate my own "collapse detector" to look for signs of consolidation and monoculture, as well as obvious failure/breakdown
Economists also expect a V-shaped recovery, and I’m betting they’re hilariously wrong about that.
I fully expect some people to benefit from the crisis, but this shit is off the rails in a way I don’t think most wealthy people have really grasped yet. It’s shaping up to be more like the Great Depression than the Great Recession.
The Fed is furiously printing money to maintain asset prices in the face of a >10% GDP crash. I don’t see how this shit doesn’t completely collapse on itself in the long run.
Something good will happen if you pour gasoline on your landlords house
Without an address, they will not be able to vote by mail. Just saying.
You are delusional. Winners don't change their strategy. Only a massive defeat would force a political party to move either way.
Landlords hate them! Leftists show evicted libs how to have a revolution with one simple homelessness crisis
i'm not entirely up to date with the politics happening in america rn, but it really does look like you guys might be headed to a revolution - material conditions go nyoom and it appears they will continue to.
Sorry, I'm stupid, I should have worded it better. I meant the chances of a, so to say, counter-revolution being successful in the end, because of the socdems' lack of conviction or any coherent ideology?
If you zoom out and look at the US as a whole, probably very high. The class character of the US is largely petit bourgeois, which is the most reactionary class. You really never know though.
What do we want? More 👏 earned 👏 income 👏 tax 👏 credits 👏. When do we want it? Eventually!
nothing of the sort manifested until after the initial revolution in both France and Russia. I expect it will be much the same here.
they all had very little to do with the actual masses at that point (1905 in Russia, 1789 in France). fuck, the march on the winter palace was organized by the cops. like yes, the parties that eventually became huge already existed but they were relative non-players on political terms. that changed rapidly after the onset of the revolution as they stepped into the void and gained the credibility to speak for the mob.
