GRAPH MADNESS: KNOW THE WARNING SIGNS A belief that making rents higher and easier to raise will actually lower rents, A belief that the high cost of housing is caused by too many tenant rights, A belief that enticing investors through deregulation will trump their desire for higher profits, A belief that investor profits are beyond political discussion, and that investment is the only possible engine of production for social infrastructure, In some rare cases, a fixation on the narrow representations of the world like graphs and tables that exclipses observations about the world itself, and the effects of people in the world. A total devotion to the perfect pattern-grid-world of the imagination.

BEWARE OF GRAPH MADNESS. It can make lies sound true and murder sound respectable.

INVESTOR PROFITS EAT UP THE LABOUR OF THE WORKING CLASS As long tenants pay for the profits of investor middlement including landlords, interest on loans, land value speculation, and flipping profits... rent will be too damn high. [Graph- a significant part of the example rent is "profits for investors" - including land value profits, interest to banks, profits and refinancing, and "a little extra for mr landlord."] FUN FACT: A SYSTEM WHERE PRIVATE LANDLORDS, DEVELOPERS, AND INVESTORS ARE IN CHARGE OF HOUSING CAN NEVER BE AFFORDABLE

DISMAL SCIENCE MOMENT: When you pay rent, you're paying an elaborate telephone game of investors with your labour, just because you're too poor to own.

IT'S BASICALLY A LAW OF THE UNIVERSE A HOUSING SYSTEM THAT CAN'T PRODUCE HOUSING WITH RENT CONTROLS IS A HOUSING SYSTEM THAT CAN NEVER PRODUCE AFFORDABILITY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

If a housing system can't bear rent control, it can't bear housing affordability.

SRSLY WRONG 348 RENT CONTROL GOOD

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Rent control. The boogeymen that haunts the dreams of economists and landlords alike. A destructive force rivalled only by tornados and tsunamis. The harbinger of death and price distortions.

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We need to "BUGS BUNNY" 'em.

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Doing a half-assed job of anything is disparaged in society, but why is that? Who decided these ass requirements? Are these reasonable ass expectations? How much ass does each of us truly have to give?

A nice episode, especially the back half!!

We did a parecon episode a few years back, but I think thats closest to a worker management ep in general

It's a good one folks.

It’s on now!!

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The wrong boys hypocritically critique the idea of hypocrisy even though they use the idea themselves. How convenient. Tune in this week to hear why we think the popular idea of hypocrisy is kind of busted and idiotic.

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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

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