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Housing crisis? There ain't no stinkn' housing crisis.

There is, however, an 'overabundance of stupid' crisis.

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[–] AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Captalist democracy is not real democracy

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Can you really have 'true democracy' in a species that has such a strong herd mentality as humans do? True democracy depends on 'free will', 'independent thought', and 'knowledge'. When the population in general can be so easily swayed to go along with one person's dogma or another, willfully ignorant and politically unintelligent, what is the meaning of 'democracy' except that it is about 'best at intimidating, charming, or marketing'? In a herd species, the 'election' is all about 'who do you want to be the dictator?'

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We have the technology to switch from representative democracy to direct democracy. There would also need to be major changes to educate everyone on the topics being voted on. That would be a huge improvement if we can keep that education less corrupted by monied interests.

[–] AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't want true democracy, I want people to not starve to death because they have no money to buy food, I want people to not have to die by cold because they don't have money for buying clothes and a afford a place to live.

It's very funny you're asking for a perfect democracy when the problem is we don't even need a "true democracy" for things to get way better than they're right now, the worst socialism is hundreds of times better than any capitalism

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 12 points 1 month ago

Same problem in Montréal, thousands of empty condos, they are small and expensive. And condo fee kill the deal compared to owning a house...

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

Our neighbour unit is sitting empty since we moved last july. It is a 3 bedroom unit.

[–] Wizzard@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

We have a similar problem in some downtown places here - Investors / rich-folk buy them up for reasons, and then when they are done (or 'disused') they sit empty for ever, driving prices up.

I believe I saw a motion (but no action) to tax empty condos at a higher rate than fully-occupied ones.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Carney was actually just asked about the housing crisis, here it is at 20:30 into the video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q_C9a5BWiTE&pp=ygUQY2FybmV5IHF1ZXN0aW9ucw%3D%3D&start=1227

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Carney must be the first PM that I can remember, who actually fleshes out answers, rather than avoiding them. Impressive, to say the least, as it shows a clear understanding of the subjects he's being asked about.