I know everybody wants to feel optimistic about Carney, Macron, Merz et al talking about a new post-RBIO system, but remember that they’re only panicking now because the structural barbarism is banging on their own doors. They don’t want to remedy it; just sustain its redirection.

Not trying to kick of a yimby fight but just to add on:

What these centrists capitalists economists don't get is that landlords aren't just greedy they also have outsized political presence.

So saying "landlords on have X% of property" is really missing huge elements of what property means

My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?"

I told him to read more Fanon

As the greatest Canadian once put it.