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Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?

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  • I moved to Germany from the US this year. There is subsidized public transit, universal healthcare, minimum vacation time, a heavy union culture, strong renter-favored laws (although capitalist for profit housing is still an ever growing plague).

    As others pointed out, the terminology isn't a great tool for debate without an agree upon definition. But yes, I would move to a country that cared about people over profits.

    • US FTC Revives Microsoft-Activision Deal Challenge

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  • Large Corporate mergers are almost always bad. We should be breaking up companies right now, not letting them combine!

    • THE CREATOR Discussion Megapost 2023-09-29 👶🔫

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  • Seeing this tomorrow. Watched a YouTube review or two that got me kinda hyped but you guys brought me back down to ground level. Bummer if it really turns out to be that generic.

    • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • Ya, that's odd. I don't know the specific regulations but wherever we draw a line it's going to create edge cases that feel weird.

    Land ownership is odd in my opinion as well.

    What I really care about is the system we have now incentivizes increasing the cost of housing and that's not how any society should be designed.

    • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • Ideally everyone owned the space they lived in, transferring ownership was as simple as finding someone else to move in, and the community invested into their own infrastructure at a more impactful rate than today.

    I'd say each building counts, with rules that discourage things like "connecting" three buildings to make it classify as 1. An apartment complex with X number of flats is a lot to manage on its own, multiple more so. With that reasoning we want rules to limit the amount they own.

    • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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  • Are you asking about the difference between land and buildings? If that's the distinction you're attempting to clarify I mean rental properties. I didn't clarify land rights in my original comment but they'd follow the same concept. A single entity can only own so much, with harsher restrictions towards renting. Land and what's on it should be owned by those who use it.

    If you mean the distinction between like a mall and it's shops, I think additional barriers can be created around classifications of said properties. 4 homes, 2 apartment complexes, 1 massive shopping center. That sorta thing.

    • If you were a community, municipality or country committing to the principle that all people deserve shelter, how would you make that principle a reality?

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    1. Individuals can own a maximum of two properties.
    2. Corporations can own a maximum of X rental properties (enough to allow a dedicated team to find a career servicing them, maintaining them, etc but not many past that point - I'd like wager in the low single digits).

    This discourages using housing as a financial asset past owning where you live. This alone should reduce the cost of housing significantly. Housing gets cheaper, more people have housing.

    1. Create programs where people or cities can get stable, low cost loans from the government to construct housing ranging from detached single family homes to high density apartment complexes.
    2. If you live somewhere with restrictive zoning laws, revise them for the modern age.

    This should allow communities to solve their own housing issues via lowering the financial burden of various solutions.

    1. Continue to offer free shelter for homeless who want it and need a place to get back on their feet, provide amenities that make that transition easier.
    2. Create a research task force to determine any other causes of homelessness and propose solutions. I'd wager: legalizing most drugs, forced mental rehabilitation, and sunset laws for criminal records would get rid of the rest.