Point Blob wrote:Kerwa wrote:I already suggests something similar. But Lumen doesn’t want to flatten any of the existing neighborhoods in Manhattan.
Build them over the roads. Cars don't need sunlight.As an aside, did you know the subway used to have public toilets? Like ones that work and people actually used. I think the US needs to think long and hard about what sort of society it is now before rushing headlong into further densification.
The Tube had those too. Some of them still work. Many don't, but nothing has been done about their remains. They just occupy space now.El Lazaro wrote:What if the neighborhoods have rich people in them?
Rich people are made of meat.
I mean okay, I wouldn't eat just anyone rich. Just the vegan ones, because being a herbivore is basically consenting to being eaten.Haganham wrote:You can't make housing affordable by pushing all the poor into commie blocks. We tried that. They were called to projects; and they were so awful that we tore them down.
Push?
Build GOOD commie blocks, prevent capitalist see-you-next-tuesdays from B2Ling them, and the poor will quite gladly move onto those blocks on their own... assuming they're not so poor they can't even afford to do that (or if there is a mountain of red tape to get through first), which could be an issue depending on how the whole thing is handled.Gun Manufacturers wrote:I work my ass off at a good job. There are better jobs out there, that pay enough that people can buy houses. My younger sister just bought a house last year by herself (less than half an acre), in a large town/small city. She only works one full time job (and it isn't flipping burgers or cashiering at a gas station or retail store). Hell, you could buy a used school bus or step van, and convert it into a tiny home on wheels. Save up for a few years and voila, you could have enough for a house.
You smell like soft meat. Privileged meat. Meat that has never known hardship and has no idea that its own privilege isn't universal.
I've been saving up for almost 2 decades. I'm not even 10% of the way to house level. But then I'm too Autistic to ever get that far. Most Aut-kin aren't even employable.
I've shoveled shit, hauled hay, and milked cows on a dairy farm for $5/hour, had to split firewood for heat (because it was too expensive to run the electric baseboard heating at my parents house), and regularly got a beating from my father if I didn't do everything his way, his speed, and to his liking. I had to save up a couple of years for my first car (it was a piece of shit that cost $3k + tax/title/registration), while working on that dairy farm, as well. I worked while I was in community college to pay for it, never had a career in my field of study, and worked a lot of crappy retail jobs at barely more than minimum wage. I now have a federal job that pays me more than double what I used to make at any of those retail jobs, but even that isn't easy. I boil in the summer, and freeze in the winter. I COULD take a break, but then I finish work later (so I usually don't). I have to be able to repeatedly lift up to 70 pounds at once, and have to deal with many unpredictable hazards.
I'm not soft, and I'm probably a lot older than you think I am.
