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Fuck hostile design.
Fucking late-stage capitalism IS hostile design. A bench like this is just the smallest/finest example which makes it so noticeable because of its immediate negative effect. What people don’t notice is the macro level hostile design baked into our system. Real estate “investors” who are buying up property across the nation only to rent it out and price gouge together MUST BE STOPPED. We need fucking regulations, we need hard caps on %YOY increases in rent that are isolated from inflation.
We need laws that limit the number of houses a single rich cunt can own. We need laws that require affordable housing, with rent based on the average wage within a 30 mile radius or something.
There are so many fucking ways we could improve our system, but none of them benefit the rich subhumans in positions to effect these changes. We need to pry power away from the death grip that money has on it, which I just can’t see how to do, especially if we keep electing goddamn republicans.