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thrancelast Tuesday at 1:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

Billions are already "priced out" of owning property, why do you think you joining them would have any broader impact?

EDIT: I don't know why I'm being downvoted. Billions of human beings have absolutely nothing to their names, and they have no power to change things. Because they own nothing. That's a basic fact of our globalized capitalist economy.


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gosub100last Tuesday at 2:21 PM

The capitalist system depends on having some people below it to exploit, African villagers notwithstanding.

codyblast Tuesday at 4:05 PM

I guess the broader impact is cause the people on here actually do have assets and can donate, vote, call, and influence.

So if the upper middle and lower upper classes are being hollowed out...

Well... what's that leave? Just the super rich, and the rest...

And considering the way the super rich are acting, I suppose they're just fine with that. The morally bankrupt sacks of shit that most of them seem to be, or become...