Cory Doctorow on Nostr: When America threw off the Gilded Age, we charted two courses to prosperity for ...
When America threw off the Gilded Age, we charted two courses to prosperity for working people: labor unions and home ownership. The ruling class cannily convinced us to rely solely on the latter. The housing emergency raging across the country is the inevitable result of that decision:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/06/the-rents-too-damned-high/10/
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