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submitted 1 year ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The landlord had told them he wanted to raise the rent to $3,500 and when they complained he decided to raise it to $9,500.

โ€œWe know that our building is not rent controlled and this was something we were always worried about happening and there is no way we can afford $9,500 per month," Yumna Farooq said.

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Yes, the only two options are capitalism and full on Chinese dictatorship communism.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, this is a testy thread, but if you have a specific idea of what you do want I'm very interested. Capitalism is a weird solution but other than old-school communism (which was honestly a series of kludges masquerading as a solution) I've yet to hear another solution described in detail.

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You should examine the social and economic structures of the Anarchist governed areas in Ukraine and Spain during their respective civil wars.

It wasn't a given that Socialist movements should be Authoritarian. Lenin bears most of the blame for that (the bastard); Marx some.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I actually have looked into that. From what I can tell they never really had a well-defined economic structure, since building up the economy bigger isn't a consideration when fighting for your existence, and used a market system for basic purchases of supplies. Modern Rojava is the same way.

The Republicans were pretty close to winning from what I've heard, and if I could see parallel universes what they would have settled on after a victory would be one of the first few things I'd be interested in.

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, they used mixed economics.

The main point is that used mainly collectivist economics, and did so without establishing authoritarian societies.

[-] terath@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is also Soviet communism, Cuban communism, and North Korean communism. I'm sure one of those countries will happily welcome you with lovely high quality public housing.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I own my home. I'm just not a scumbag leech on society like you guys.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You misspelled Chinese dictatorship capitalism

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