It’s not an illegal bribe, if we legalise it and call it lobbying. *taps head

In the rest of the western world, landlords buy houses. They’re especially prolific for this in places with a high demand for housing, as this will maximise their profit extraction for the least amount of work. It’s a real problem, especially when the people denying mortgages to people are the same ones buying up the housing stock.

The same claim is made in the UK about the “real” problem being building regulations, as if forcing developers to build infrastructure like schools and roads (along with the houses they want to build) is a bad thing. Luckily though, the idea that the private sector could save us from themselves, at the expense of their own profit, is so silly that most people are informed enough to dismiss it instantly as nothing more than the corporate propaganda it is.

At some point, we have to start accepting the finite nature of land.

I would look at things like “supply and demand” to answer that question.

It depends on what you mean by absorb. To make into muscle, it’s about right. Maybe a bit more for a man on a hard weight lifting regime. Like, 4 x 1-1.5 hours a week. The rest will be stored as fat, if it isn’t used for energy, the same as anything else. That could also be seen as absorbed but I think you mean the first one.

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100%. For example right now the meat and dairy lobby groups are pushing hard for everyone to eat for more protein than they need. Now, I have people who can’t tell the difference between a cytokine and a histone without using Google, even if it slapped them round the face, telling me they need 100g plus a day in Brotien. Its just a coincidence that this so called health advice makes those groups a lot more money.

“How dare you say that I’d convert to islam”

Trump 2026.

This just in, ignorance is still bliss

The only other person here who understands MMT. Sorry for your downvotes. Just wanted to send some love, over the ignorance.

I have one simple trick for people who hate taxation but turn a blind eye to corporate profits. Instead of calling it “tax” call it “government profit” because, apparently, that’s all it takes to fool them.

I mean, we’ve barely started. I don’t think it’s time to think about when we should stop. But, if we have to, it’ll be when it’s finished.

They do have these programs but they barely scratch the surface or even contra the damage currently being done to the communities in question.

It’s not exactly easy but it’s not exactly impossible either. Of course, not you necessarily, someone could keep declaring it impossible to do no matter much the subject is researched.

For example, we can see that the communities effected by this have had far less investment than places that benefitted. The way to fix a severe lack of investment is through significant investment. There’ll be more, of course, but that’s an easy one right there.

Arming and radicalising traumatised people and setting them against people you don’t like is quite the American staple.

That’s how you deal with terrorists.

In the UK, once you take a loan against an unrealised gain, you just realised the gain. Otherwise, it would quite easily be used as a disguised remuneration package, specifically used to avoid tax. This is standard practice is countries who haven’t had their tax laws completely and utterly perverted by billionaires. Ours is “only” mostly.

To me, they’re lying to push a narrative. No one’s turning down a payrise because of that. Only stupid people who have never been offered that kind of money would ever make that kind of claim. So, I agree They’re idiots. Just in a slightly different way.

I’m told filming sims can sometimes fool it

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Tbf, i dont think they could name all of the African American slaves or the millions killed in the DRC.

You know the drill: Ukrainian starvation genocide = crime of communism.

When the Turkish capitalist empire does the same to Armenians, that’s just one of those things. Feels kinds commie though.

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