The US is a failed state. These trends only continue to make land/agrarian reform sexier and sexier to the proletarianized masses.

Nobody wants to spend their youth kicking the can down the road for the next 5000 years. Eventually this will become an armed struggle, because we're tired of working to pay our landlords their kickbacks. Fuckin' move out of our parents house after putting up with their shit for nearly 20 years and then straight into another vertical hierarchy where we still aren't the masters of our own living spaces. Sometimes we can't even have that because it's too expensive to move out, or, like here, affordable apartments are just outright blocked in the interest of housing barons. We want to get on with our lives and can't do that when we have to answer to "daddy".

On a positive note, this buys China more and more time to show the housing situation that those in the US want to see. One look at Chinese infrastructure and the fact that the vast majority of the population owns homes, coupled with having been able to peacefully get on with their lives and enjoy positive social trends is enough to radicalize quite a lot of very hungry people. Even rent is far more reasonable in China.

Reforms can’t come fast enough. “Every time you think you scrape the bottom of the barrel, you get something like this,” William Sterling, one of the lawyers representing the developers in the builder’s remedy case, told me.

Reforms are meaningless under dictatorship of the capitalist class. The only way to secure them is to depose the ruling class and oppress their remnants.

If the state doesn’t take strong action soon, we may discover that the bottom is even deeper than we thought.

This is the US. Over a million people died of COVID because it was a big ass experiment and session of torture porn for the capitalists. The bottom is infinite.