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>> I fail to see how the housing issue in SF and the issue you mentioned in Orlando is related to capitalism.

Then I can only logically concede that you are either blind, or intentionally ignorant of the blindingly obvious correlation.

Whether it’s Disney and projects across the highway or something like skid row in a state with the largest collection of wealth in the country, it all boils down to the same ‘I’m comfortable and I don’t want to have to think about not being comfortable’ attitude that allows this country to have billionaires and do absolutely nothing to help these people.

Communism isn’t a perfect system, but fundamentally; it’s supposed to care about the individual in a way capitalism has shown it is fundamentally incapable of.

It seems we currently have no political system that seems to balance progress with the needs of the people - but this preposterous 1%-bullshit capitalist system is so destined to collapse that if it wasn’t for said 1% so desperately clinging onto it so they can maintain wealth and power, it would have long ago.

It’s only greed and selfishness that powers the current American political and economic system.

To say it’s ‘disturbing’ would be an extremely shameful understatement.



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