I guess what I’m saying is that there will be no world war or genocides.

Then you don't understand fascism.

Like, you really think I was suggesting that genocide is not that bad?

People suggest that all the time.

A land value tax is an absolute must, same goes for the rest of what you'll said.

But it isn't a magic wand. The culture still needs to catch up, as many unfortunately still see being a landlord as an actual valid job. And even under a land value tax system landlords could still exist. Nowhere near as exploitative, but they'd still exist.

The concept of a free market relies on a hidden assumption that the choice between products is a free and easy one with a low switching cost. Housing is none of those things. It takes time, money, energy, you need to be able bodied or able to afford movers. If you have a job you might be stuck in a given area. People are heavily de-incentivized from moving, and that's always going to be the case no matter how housing is made and distributed.

As a result, landlords will always have enough room to exist in a housing market, even if it is a land value tax system. So if by "LVT would fix this" you mean stop landlords from existing, LVT is only a stepping stone.

A VERY good stepping stone, but only a stepping stone.

Idk why they thought I’d be dumb enough to believe them, considering they wanted me because of my test score.

I think therein lies your answer. Their own test scores were low enough to think you might eventually join.

Thank you for your take.

Completely unrelated to what you said, I appreciate seeing so many star trek fans around here. It really makes lemmy feel like a home.

What do we have to do, and why aren’t we doing it?

The list of worker protections needed for that kind of solidarity would take a book series to properly explain. The majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they can't walk out without losing everything. They would pretty much instantly lose their jobs, which is a huge deterance.

And culturally, the situation is fucked. The U.S. has a much workers solidarity as La Croix has taste. Nobody wants to be the first to stick their neck out for a general strike. Nobody takes the ideal of a general strike seriously. A third of the population is republicans, whom vehemently oppose unions and worker protections.

The culture, values, and worker protections of this country need to dramatically change. And I wish I had solutions.

Yeah. Luckily the work I am doing is to fix some really bad work that the entire company has been complaining about. So once it's fixed it will hopefully be a little bit more recognition than that. Plus my boss is pretty level headed.

But who fucking knows? There is always the likelihood that people will say things along those lines. And it ain't my job to fight them on that.

No, we have worse. Dates sometimes stored as strings, sometimes as datetimes, and sometimes as integers. There is no consistency, logic, or forethought to the schema.

It's rough.

Conservatives/fascists are just gonna LOVE these next few decades. Climate change is set to destroy countless homes, displacing millions if not billions of people. If they think the "border crisis" is bad now, they're gonna lose it then.

This has some real verification can vibes.

I'll be honest, I followed you here/noticed this thread because I was checking to see if you were ignoring the reports or just weren't around. But now that I am here, I'm giving you my two cents.

You are getting a ridiculous amount of reports because you are failing to do anything effective about TJD and Momo, who make up the most of the civility issues outside of random dissenters that occasionally see the posts from your sub.

or the very least not report each other? If you don’t report it, I can at least pretend I didn’t see it and be on my merry way with plausible deniability. Fucking tattle tales.

The lack of moderation response to Momo is the exact reason why I clapped back at Momo that last time. Your options are:

1. Deal with the problem makers (TJD & Momo), either by banning them or removing their comments (waiting around for them to edit their comments is not enough).

2. Don't do anything and allow your sub to descend into a 4chan-esc world of slurs and insults, probably getting your sub banned in the process.

Like does that really warrant a ban? Not really.

An individual bad comment/insult/name calling may not warrant a ban. I agree with you on that. But when a user consistently does it, when they have a history of doing so, it is time to show them the door. If they want to use slurs and insults in every comment then they can go to 4chan.

Some people will never admit anything is happening. They'll just blame everything on something else.

We are already seeing the effects of climate change. If they were going to admit it, they would have done so already.

Critical thinking skills != Telling people what to think

But then again, republicans won't see a difference, or they'll pretend not to see a difference