what's completely lost in the uproar about the demands of rent control and socialisation of buildings is that the people of Berlin, New York and elsewhere simply disagree with market justice. the victory of market rationality has been so complete that everyone frames their argument in an economic way, but that's not really what it's about at its core, is it. the people of New York and Berlin simply don't want to be priced out of their cities, no matter what the market says. they simply don't feel that market morality aligns with their personal morality and therefore want to allocate resources differently. whether they know it or not: the debate about whether rent control is bad for the economy or not suggests a reasonable number of people don't realize this anymore.

1 beer in and i start telling people to surrender

actually, note on translation: in the original german he writes that the conditions still have to be developed. all english versions i've found translate it as "enumerate" though, with the implication being that they need to be developed in the sense of thought of by the social theorist. i understood the german "develop" in this case to mean the development of the conditions the same way we talk about the development of the productive forces, that is: technological. it's not entirely clear what he means, both interpretations make sense

mein gott, schalt doch einfach einer mal diese scheiß sonne ab

das dumme ist ja, dass es (zmd bei mir) eigentlich sehr oft bewölkt ist, aber es sind halt trotzdem immer 30+ grad

there's a lot of kayfabe everywhere about the US' rightward turn, but the simple fact of the matter is that the rise of the American tech industry means that they have every single country or organisation that didn't deliberately build an alternative by the balls when push comes to shove. strategic independence means running your own tech infrastructure, building your own software and hardware, everything else is just fluff and posturing