The United States is facing a historic homelessness crisis, with figures reaching alarming heights. A recent report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reveals that in January of last year, approximately 653,000 Americans reported being homeless in 2023. This figure represents a 12% increase from the previous year, marking the largest single-year surge ever recorded. The report highlights a 48% increase in homelessness compared to 2015, as reported by the Daily Wire. Many have been s
Stock market is going up as a result of increased worker exploitation which is what’s leading people not being able to make ends meet. Other things that make the market go up, such as shares buybacks while doing mass layoffs, are also feeding into the problem.
Do you guys ever think that governemnt policy is responsible for things like this happening?
Do you ever think that the government represents the interests of the ruling capital owning class and passes policy accordingly?
But what you probably advocate for would centralize more power in the government that is controlled by the powerful.
Talking about centralization of power with the government shows profound misunderstanding of the underlying problem which is who controls the government and which class interests the government represents. Centralization of the government has absolutely nothing to do with that. What you’re describing is literally the way current US system functions.
You are just going to trade one master for another. Its like the one ring, it cant be properly controlled, it has to be destroyed.
That’s an ignorant statement because we have existing socialist states and we can see that they function very differently from capitalist ones. Meanwhile, nobody has shown a functioning alternative to having a state. Anarchists keep rejecting practical and tangible improvements to everyone’s lives while chasing dreams they have no means of realizing.
What are the states you are referring to? North Korea? Cuba?
The improvements you are talking about usually just make things worse.
as well as China, Vietnam, and Laos