"Most of the kids weren't even to sale. Huge disappointment. 1/10"
I love how 11 implies 10 as well. You can't choose that it fell in one sense or another many times without also saying it is yet to fall
True. A key aspect of industrialization is that skilled labor is replaced by machines everyone can handle. It takes more energy but less skill to make concrete than working with stone so concrete houses are the way of the future (as in the future of the past, you get it)
The discussion I've talked about was in the context of an occupation of a university building standing empty for two years while many initiatives wanted the room. After 28 hours, the occupiers left because they convinced the university to let people use that space.
This might be different in the states but the city I live in is famous for building luxury housing that's used as an investment and stands empty while people sleep in the subway stations. The need for cheap housing is there, but these people have little money so the demand for expensive housing wins that might be used as second houses of the very rich or it really is empty and not used at all, just a future investment.
At some places, people will even leave houses empty to increase the market value of other houses, but that's not happening here according to the discussion.
I've been to a discussion about house occupation and vacancy recently and one take home message for me was that it's better to frame this topic about vacancy than about homelessness. When we talk about homeless people, we talk about scarcity, people wanting to take something away from us. Once we talk about empty houses, we talk about mismanaged abundance. Let people use houses of the rich they don't need anyway, they don't even use but rather leave it empty than let poor people in.
The "Semiosis" series. Just finished the second part, the third was published a few weeks ago.
I had an online friend back on ICQ who searched for another guy with my name. I said it's not me but we got along so well, we stayed in touch while a while, I even added my "googleganger". At some point, we just wasn't online anymore. Guess he moved on to MSN or something and didn't bother to take me with him.
