I love love love that we're having these discussions about housing first and tiny homes, what if the homeless damage them, let's build (new) traditional custodial institutions for the violent, and so on...
...at exactly when architectural Brutalism is having a critical revival, don't tear down the Moriyama Science Centre, look at those beautiful Brutalist churches...
We scrounge ratty old buildings for inadequate, dangerous shelters, and haggle and whinge to the point of inaction about housing people in shipping containers or surplus hotels, but laud "jail cell chic".
It goes to show that "The cruelty is the point", that "We'll give you the world if only you bow down before [our economic truisms]". Some people have taken into their hearts that human suffering is a renewable resource.
UBI has already worked. We hunt and forage food and water, but air and gravity are supplied for free, the latter being inescapably mandatory (good luck ending it, rulers). They're not nothing, not "but that's different", there's wattage in all.
We talk about tax and money like they're natural theories, when we could easily pursue compatible, interoperable regimes that meet the UBI design brief. If price is value then change in price is a proxy for externalities, so tax transactions based on change in instantaneous price. The power to do so is in divide and conquer, between rentiers who value stability and those who cultivate volatility. The Not-In-My-Back-Office corporate leadership creates gigahertz iPads but never seems to buy their way out of overnight transaction clearing and filing labyrinthine returns for some reason.
I hate being livestock in the "incentive" farm. We almost all do. And while I appreciate insights about the Roman Empire as much as any white male...it's less the done thing these days. :)
...at exactly when architectural Brutalism is having a critical revival, don't tear down the Moriyama Science Centre, look at those beautiful Brutalist churches...
We scrounge ratty old buildings for inadequate, dangerous shelters, and haggle and whinge to the point of inaction about housing people in shipping containers or surplus hotels, but laud "jail cell chic".
It goes to show that "The cruelty is the point", that "We'll give you the world if only you bow down before [our economic truisms]". Some people have taken into their hearts that human suffering is a renewable resource.