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So we're planning to tax the rich to fund homebuilding projects like in China or Australia? I could dig it, but can we do that part BEFORE we ban mortgages? Because otherwise we'll just be creating a homeless dystopia like Mao Zedong's.

Communist spy drones

Alfred Hitchcock "Birds" - the revolution is coming!

Have you heard of this idea called "taxes?"
More than that, are you familiar with the idea of taxes being spent on more than just bloated military and police?
- Its easier, for most, to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism.
- Just curious, do you want everyone living in cookie cutter multifamily boxes or are people allowed to have houses and different size pieces of land and buildings in your utopia?
- Tell me what type of society you are imagining please, in the real world it is already difficult for the average entrepreneur not to evade VAT on at least 30% of his purchases, because if we don't talk about Nordic countries or Switzerland then I don't see it feasible how people can accept even more interventions from the government in their lives.
- Can you tell me how to get to the fantasy land you are living in where this is possible?
Questions no one ever asks about bailouts or the military.
- And?
  Do you have a cost analysis on giving everyone free housing? I'd wager it's astronomically higher than bailouts or the military.
- The bailouts were loans. The us govt got that money back.
  Those banks should have been punished though, allowed to fail.

Pretty good till the price of oil plummeted, single resource economies are ticking time bombs.
- What do you mean 'till the price of oil plummeted"? The whole world plummeted in the 08' crash. Sure the price per barrel plummeted in 2009 but the price of oil has since gone up to those early 2000's levels...
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate

USSR style. We can all be our ideal selves. We can finally be writers and artists living in our own large single family homes who teach children on the side, but only when we feel up to it.

And no one has to be the guy who works on the sewers or anything unpleasant like that. Plus, maybe someone wants to do that work, idk. And if not, uh... robots can do it. Who builds, programs, hauls around, and uses the robots whose sole job is to unclog sewers? Uh, nerds, I guess. Or... other robots, maybe, idk.

There will be no need for forced labor at all under this new system.

Are we looking at the same meme? I don't see anything about not working or having other expenses.
- Free housing is just as unrealistic as not working.
- You lack vision here. If we're canceling mortgages, then why not get rid of other expenses? Surely water heat and electricity are human rights and should be covered by taxes. And we could all likely agree on food as well. Why would we coerce people to work jobs they dislike? We could live our ideal lives if only we dismantled the economic system one layer at a time.
  ...just don't think about the details of how we'll encourage people to do dirty jobs or you'll get downvoted. That's bad vibes.
Bruh, its about valuing the people who work on the sewer more than the people who work at banks making money out of thin air. Its about shifting the whole paradigm of our society and focusing on what matters, I wouldn't expect a "tory" to understand that though.
- Plumbers make a lot of money for a reason, yes.
If only there was a way to encourage people to do things besides forcing them.
- It is hard to beat the current system that encourages people to work a single profession for ~30 years 5 days a week in order to foster expertise. And somehow, (rightly or not) manages to make most of them feel like they do it willingly.
- Ah yes, good old fear.

"I don't understand sociology or economics and expect everything to be provided for free"

What idiot thinks anyone wants "stuff for free." What the fuck do you think taxes are? We aren't expecting people to shit houses out of their asses. We're expecting our government WHICH WE PAY to provide us with basic dignity
- Did you not read the comic?
  Also, I'm not sure why you think the government owes every citizen a house.
  I'm not arguing against social safety nets, but straight up paying for housing for every citizen is how you end up with everyone living in shoebox apartments.
  I'm sure that you haven't even considered the numbers at all on this. If you think the current taxes will pay for it, you're mistaken.
  Even if we took the entire military budget, that would be less than $2,500 per citizen per year.
There's an entire corpus of books and documents critiquing the current system and on how a society based on mutual aid would work. None of them "expect everything to be provided for free".
I am not aware of a way to have coercion free society. But I am very sure we can massively reduce the amount of coercion necessary to keep our current society running well.
- Not disagreeing, but the message of "cancel all rent and mortgages," is silly and shows a clear lack of understanding on how the world works.
"Hey wait a second why isn't the state enforcing my property relations for free? The peasants aren't paying rent, someone shoot them!"
What was the last book on economics you read?
- Progress and Poverty, and you still can't just have everything for free even in a better system.
- It's been a few years since my economics minor, but likely more recently than you.