I realize that this was just your initial reaction: “So no one can post about a policy of the Democratic candidate for president because it’s “insensitive” to your situation and “offensive”to you personally?”, and I acknowledge your overture at deescalation, but frankly I am having none of it. My point was not my personal situation, that was just one extreme illustration of a much bigger problem.
Your initial post was about a DOJ lawsuit against a software company enabling landlords to coordinate raising their prices not just to “what the market will bear” but far beyond it. You then continued with imagining the terrible consequences of landlords no longer being able to gouge the citizenry for 20%-40% annual ROI. This imagination was utterly fantastical, completely wrong-headed. There have already been terrible consequences to allowing landlords immense privileges, and I pointed some of those out.
My point was not just my situation, indeed I find the relentlessly self-centered viewpoint of many women and boomers and women boomers, not incomprehensible but reprehensible, particularly those who angle for status and favor of our supposed elites, those parasitical rentiers fronting for bankrupt banks and backed by the members of our corrupt bar and judiciary.
My point was the consequences for millions of actual Americans of allowing such inferior and inimical people to do what you are defending.
If you asked for a solution to the landlord / bank / exploitation problem, which is the direct cause of the homelessness problem, I could tell you about ways to use civil RICO for that, which I have researched extensively for use against not only landlords (did you know that harboring illegal aliens is a RICO predicate offense?), but also for use against employers generally, particularly those who pay less than is needed to afford shelter, against the worker’s compensation boards (whose mission is to enable employers to injure workers as cheaply as possible while providing maximum profit to corporations that have bought up most doctors’ practices in the specialty), against state labor departments (which in many states have no safety enforcement at all, and all of which engage in massive human trafficking for employers), even against the regional Federal Reserve Banks and their owners. But by your initial post, you have positioned yourself as an ally of such interests, thus an enemy, not only of myself, not only of the American people, but of justice.
This invites God’s vengeance: The Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance(Wikipedia)
- Murder (as Abel’s blood cried out to God in Genesis)
- Sodomy (Ezekiel 16:49–50 : “This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy”)
- Oppression of the poor, widows, or orphans (cf. plagues of Egypt)
- Injustice to the wage earner (“Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts”(cf. James 5:4)
What you asked was:
“Can any of you dear polymaths help me out, share a vision of a less horrible future?”
What, the complete, workable new economic system I gave you for free wasn’t enough?
Sure, for just three times the going rate for biglaw associates, $1,200/hr., 80 hour minimum retainer. I’ll knock off a thou for cash.