[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml -2 points 22 hours ago

Home ownership is by family, not every single person.

Also just because something "feels" wrong in your gut (probably because it doesn't satisfy your western-supremacist biases), doesn't make it false. Claims should be backed up by data, not gut feelings.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

I don't want to turn this into a homeowners association / HOA gripe-fest, but we "own" our home, and I'm not allowed to put a bird-feeder on my balcony, according to HOA rules. This is in freedom-loving USA.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

That was def a consideration in deciding the name of this platform. I was playing a lot of lemmings at the time, and learned that them being mindless suicidal drones is just ridiculously false. SO why not just own it and let the redditors think that they're the unique brain-geniuses, and have them call us something that is easily disproven.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A highrise just means any tall building, with enough floors to make an elevator required.

Housing highrise buildings can either have apartments for rent, or condos sold outright (usually with some kind of a homeowners association that takes care of utilities, trash, etc that you have to pay recurring fees to).

In my country (the US), highrise condos exist but are much rarer than every other form of housing. In Spain I saw a lot of highrise condo buildings, some of the condos even had two floors. Imagine a mansion inside of a highrise building, pretty neat.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Depends on the country, or how big a picture you're taking. Dubois didn't have much hope for the US, and he placed most of his hopes for the future in a union of African states, and PRC and USSR of course.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I love this video because it really concisely breaks down what needs to be done, in a common-sense way. Countries thinking they can solve their problems while skipping the most important step the PRC and other socialist countries took - eliminating the parasitic landlord class and nationalizing industry and finance, are deluded.

Paul Cockshott - Obstacles to the China path in Latin America.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago

In Spain at least, a lot of ppl live in what looks like highrise apartment buildings, but many are actually condos owned out right. I'm surprised that's not more of the case in France and Germany, just letting landlords gobble up real estate like the US.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

Same, looking at my peers, none of them own the home, maybe 1/5 has a mortgage, and the rest either rent or live with parents.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

It doesn't, I have no idea where you're getting that from. China eliminated urban poverty over a decade ago (~2013), and rural poverty is nearly eliminated. Source.

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. At China’s current national poverty line, the number of poor fell by 770 million over the same period.

Another anti-China western source because we know white supremacists wouldn't accept any Chinese source about their poverty alleviation campaigns.

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