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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 94 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm currently on vacation in California at an outdoor mall. I'm squat/sitting on a tiny piece of concrete that's like 8” off the ground and am so mad that I can relate to this picture. Why the fuck can't we just have benches!?!

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 months ago

Because poor people might use them, so fuck you pleb.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would provide homeless people with 1 possible point of comfort, can’t have that.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is that why we hate Soviet housing so much, because it gave the homeless dignity, shelter and comfort?

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

I think that’s what’s so pervasive about capitalism: The superiority it gives people. It has a perpetual struggling class that the comfortable can always point to and say, “At least I’m better than that.”

Well that and a million other reasons.

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Homeless people are just losers who lost the game of Capitalism, their punishment is just and necessary for them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and start a Fortune 500 company
/s

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much it, yeah. Capitalism is fundamentally evil and they've spent so many decades now projecting all of its flaws on to any society that tries to work to a brighter future.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this point capitalism is just feudalism with a stock market.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Always has been.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought we hated it because they were all ugly monotonous blocks with often pretty bad apartment layouts, often used to import a bunch of Russian workers to an existing city to slowly replace the local culture. But maybe that's just me.

That's not to say I don't like the idea of everyone having housing, or even the idea of big apartment buildings. Just make them not look like prisons ffs. And put elevators in 5 story and lower buildings too. The soviet 5 story apartment buildings at least in my country never had elevators, so they were like a big F U for disabled people, as you couldn't even get to the first floor without taking the stairs. Disabled people could only live in the bigger ones.

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I thought we hated it because they were all ugly monotonous blocks with often pretty bad apartment layouts, often used to import a bunch of Russian workers to an existing city to slowly replace the local culture. But maybe that’s just me.

Certainly not anywhere else, with replacing local workers and their culture with bland carbon copy lookalikes...

At least it was a effient use of space, building up than sideways.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

How long did it take for a mall cop to tell you to stand up?

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Well, it's mall. Its goal is maximizing profits.