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Rinnkuun… you’re back. Nice

Next time you’re in Sydney I’ll buy you a beer. Until then, much respect. Keep up the awesome work.

It’s like the Avengers of Lemmy porn posts in here. We’re just missing Rinnkun. Keep up the awesome work folks.

I was so happy to see Phoebe land here from Reddit.

All the other kids with the trumped up charges better run better run faster than my verdicts

I think it’s a burn from an iron

That’s exactly what I’m trying to highlight. It might be good for the US to provide a list of things that are ok to regulate for the good of society, and things that are not ok to regulate for the good of capitalism.

Should healthcare be regulated? Should education be regulated? Should housing and rental prices be regulated? Food prices? What about essential services like power, internet, waste… should all that be regulated? You are living in a social democracy and pretending it’s a pure capitalist system.

For clarity, I believe in socialism, and live in Australia, arguably one of the more successful social democracies. I’m trying to highlight how capitalism has some massive gaps when it comes to implementation.

Interestingly, in Australia we have no rental controls, and the market just works. Prices rise and fall based on the demands of the market. At times, renting in Australia becomes unaffordable for many, and it’s all over the news, and people try to address the issue. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rental price controls being offered as a solution. The more common proposed solutions are to: build more affordable houses in newly created suburbs further from the city, increase public transport options to the city making outlying suburbs more viable, all of which provide downward pressure on the rental prices in the popular city districts. As construction booms, the rental market softens.

(I copy/pasted this comment from its original location as the person I replied to deleted their comment)

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For clarity, I believe in socialism, and live in Australia, arguably one of the more successful social democracies. I’m trying to highlight how capitalism has some massive gaps when it comes to implementation.

Interestingly, in Australia we have no rental controls, and the market just works. Prices rise and fall based on the demands of the market. At times, renting in Australia becomes unaffordable for many, and it’s all over the news, and people try to address the issue. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rental price controls being offered as a solution. The more common proposed solutions are to: build more affordable houses in newly created suburbs further from the city, increase public transport options to the city making outlying suburbs more viable, all of which provide downward pressure on the rental prices in the popular city districts. As construction booms, the rental market softens.

I thought pure capitalism meant that a removal of controls and regulations would lead to natural consequences (like essential services workers being priced out) which would eventually lead to a lack of essential workers, which would eventually lead to the creation of affordable accommodation in the city by some enterprising business looking to capitalise on that opportunity. The free market would eventually take care of the problem. It might be disruptive in the short term, but ultimately that problem would be self resolved by the market. Bringing in regulations and controls starts to smell like socialism?!