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The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500.

β€œWe know that our building is not rent controlled and this was something we were always worried about happening and there is no way we can afford $9,500 per month," Yumna Farooq said.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, this is a testy thread, but if you have a specific idea of what you do want I'm very interested. Capitalism is a weird solution but other than old-school communism (which was honestly a series of kludges masquerading as a solution) I've yet to hear another solution described in detail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should examine the social and economic structures of the Anarchist governed areas in Ukraine and Spain during their respective civil wars.

It wasn't a given that Socialist movements should be Authoritarian. Lenin bears most of the blame for that (the bastard); Marx some.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I actually have looked into that. From what I can tell they never really had a well-defined economic structure, since building up the economy bigger isn't a consideration when fighting for your existence, and used a market system for basic purchases of supplies. Modern Rojava is the same way.

The Republicans were pretty close to winning from what I've heard, and if I could see parallel universes what they would have settled on after a victory would be one of the first few things I'd be interested in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, they used mixed economics.

The main point is that used mainly collectivist economics, and did so without establishing authoritarian societies.