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2021 Jun 9, 7:06am   420 views  7 comments

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1   mell   2021 Jun 9, 8:16am  

Thanks! Ordered.
2   Ceffer   2021 Jun 9, 9:50am  

Why is 'reporting your parents so they are sent to the gulags for their own good' faulty thinking?

"Mom came back from years in the gulag, and now she's really, really nice to me, but she never gets closer than 15 feet away!"
3   Patrick   2021 Jun 9, 10:12am  

I've started reading Aristotle's Politics and even in 340 BC or whenever, he was rejecting the idea that all property should be held in common, pointing out that people do not take care of common property, but do take care of their own.
4   Onvacation   2021 Jun 9, 10:25am  

Patrick says
people do not take care of common property, but do take care of their own.

Some people. I lived in some housing projects when I was a kid and the lifestyle seemed to be all about eating, partying, watching TV, and waiting for the next months check. They hardly seemed to care about their own property. Actually, looking back, my neighbors didn't seem to have much of anything.

There is a vast underclass that is subsidized to stay poor. There are negative incentives for them to better themselves. Why would ANYONE take a hard manual labor job like dishwashing, or janitorial when they can make more by sitting at home watching TV, drinking malt liquor, and eating some Kentucky Fried?

Actually KFC pairs better with Coors Light.
5   Onvacation   2021 Jun 9, 10:26am  

Patrick says
people do not take care of common property, but do take care of their own.

I guess I made your point.
6   Karloff   2021 Jun 9, 10:14pm  

Onvacation says
waiting for the next months check. They hardly seemed to care about their own property

If what is "theirs" was purchased with money that was given instead of earned, then it falls into the category of "less likely to be taken care of".

I see this all the time where I come from. A certain subset of the population gets things for free, promptly destroys them and is back at the trough demanding a replacement.
7   Ceffer   2021 Jun 9, 10:30pm  

You see it with inherited homes in Santa Cruz. You can tell, because they are run down but the families just keep them because they cost next to nothing to support with prop. 13 based on prices from the 60's or 70's while they keep going up in value. We have talked with a few who lived in Santa Cruz for a while because they inherited family home, or a place their parents had bought a long time ago. Some decided to cash out and use the proceeds elsewhere.

But, many of the homes just go to seed because the families got them for free and don't care.

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