What’s REALLY behind the war on home ownership? Power and Control.
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 7 months ago to Government
This is what happens when powerful government is controlled by a cartel who use that power for their own purposes while claiming its for the common good.
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"Under Feudalism, land wasn’t owned by the working class, but provided to them by landed barons, hence the term “Land Lord”. If you disrespected your Lord, or broke his rules, or he perceived another peasant/farm animal/crop would be a better use of the land, he could take it back.
Essentially, the behaviour of serfs was kept in check by their reliance on the nobility for a place to live. That’s very much the dynamic they’re going for here.
Rental agreements can be full of any terms and conditions the landlord wants, and the more desperate people get the more of their consumer rights they will sign over.
Maybe you’ll agree to smart meters which monitor your internet or power-usage habits, and then sell the data to behavioural modellers and viral marketers.
Maybe you’ll have to agree to certain power limitations or water shortages in order to “fight climate change”.
Maybe it will get worse than that."
Excerpt:
"Under Feudalism, land wasn’t owned by the working class, but provided to them by landed barons, hence the term “Land Lord”. If you disrespected your Lord, or broke his rules, or he perceived another peasant/farm animal/crop would be a better use of the land, he could take it back.
Essentially, the behaviour of serfs was kept in check by their reliance on the nobility for a place to live. That’s very much the dynamic they’re going for here.
Rental agreements can be full of any terms and conditions the landlord wants, and the more desperate people get the more of their consumer rights they will sign over.
Maybe you’ll agree to smart meters which monitor your internet or power-usage habits, and then sell the data to behavioural modellers and viral marketers.
Maybe you’ll have to agree to certain power limitations or water shortages in order to “fight climate change”.
Maybe it will get worse than that."
The entire legal system of "real estate" is a scam of monstrous proportions designed to eliminate 'private property' and to create a permanent class of debt and tax slaves.
Even if the state is using the debt to finance government controlled communist indoctrination centers (schools) to get acquiescence it is still not acceptable that they have the right to indebt an individual without his consent. The fact that they get the majority of the slaves to say its okay still does not grant the state the right to enslave the one individual who did not agree.
Either we are sovereigns or the state is. If the state is sovereign then individuals are slaves.
I can't say it better.
The reason homes are in short supply (and companies like BlackRock are starting to monopolize them) is urban planning/zoning, which acts as a cartel, forcing most owners of unbuilt land to keep it that way in order to create the shortage. (The cartel consists of local owners of existing homes, who operate the planning agencies in the way that maximizes prices and thus their own profit.) This problem has gotten worse under the UN "Sustainable Communities" initiative (AKA "Agenda 21" and "Agenda 2030") which seeks to force rural-area residents to move into cities. So it's becoming harder to put up homes with government approval, but there are still ways to do it without them knowing about it.
Landlords putting unfair conditions in leases are a morally ambiguous situation. I see them as presumptively valid even though some of them would not exist if enough competition were allowed. Besides, landlords are getting screwed right now by the eviction moratorium which was just renewed.
It is NOT free market capitalism at work. It IS government meddling - controlled by those who 'invest' in buying politicians. This manipulation has been growing and growing for more than a century.
The 'socialism' you note is being done in great measure by looters under cover while controlling government meddling to their own advantage.
Of course useful idiots are demanding more government meddling in their voluntary ignorance of economic reality.
Everyone who lacks 'pull' is being robbed including most small property owners and landlords who have no government provided funding.
What the Fed has been doing is buying up a lot of stocks and bonds itself -- so much that most of the apparently rising stock market indices and non-rising interest rates of the past two years are artificial. This is both inflation and the picking of winners, and I'd prefer it not happen. But neither do I want to see the depression that would occur if we had the forced shutdown without the subsidies.
A lot of the retail trade that isn't going to local stores because they're closed is going to Amazon and to supermarkets that offer delivery (at least four chains just where I live). Hopefully we'll stay un-shutdown long enough that the market can adjust back.
There are rumors (most recently on brighteon.com) that Biden is planning, around mid August, to impose another year of shutdown, and that he expects big protests and intends to have the FBI commit a lot more false-flag violence during them. So when it happens we need to avoid being in places where riots will occur.
Blackrock and others are making asset purchases thanks to the fed supporting them with inflationary funding. This is to protect the (inflated) asset values that should have been allowed to rise or fall in the free market. They have been repeatedly bailed out by government and the fed.
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/sov...
Essentially the UN's Agenda involves:
- global, collectivist government and obliteration of all individual nations worldwide (natch);
- the elimination of property rights;
- the forced relocation of all non-urban residents from their land into mega-cities strung along a single giant "transit corridor" in every continent;
- the designation of all thusly-vacated-and-confiscated private lands as "wilderness areas" which are to be 100% off-limits to human presence of any kind, in perpetuity;
- the elimination of personal transportation, IOW the elimination of cars and even the dismantling of roadways;
- the elimination of the right to migration (i.e., travel) without State permission;
- 100% control of "urban planning," with people warehoused in pack-and-stack urban mega-anthills within State-approved cubicles (think: Bruce Willis' flat in "The Fifth Element);
- 100% control of appliances by government, via the "Internet of Things" - which means State-rationed heating, cooling, lighting, washing, electricity in general;
- a 100% State monopoly on medicine, which means your very body belongs to the State, not to you (a.k.a. slavery);
- 100% State control of childbearing;
- Children as wards of the State, not of their parents;
- etc.
That implies a massive variety of fires to be put out - and "fire-breaks" to be created for future prevention - but to confine this to the context of land use and home ownership, here are three stakes that we should be demanding that our politicians drive through the heart of this blood-sucking Agenda 21 monster:
1. A Constitutional Amendment to abolish property taxation, nationwide, as a human rights violation. As McCannon01 correctly stated, we are a nation of renters, not of homeowners. Not one American, even those who've paid off their mortgages in full, owns a home. Not one. For if you are compelled by law to make periodic payments to someone else, on pain of getting tossed into the street if you don't, then by definition you are a renter, not an owner.
Malta, Lichtenstein, Croatia, Thailand, Monaco, Fiji, the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Israel, Dubai, Bahrain are some of the countries where there is no residential property taxation at all, or at most a one-time tax on purchase or sale of a residence, but no perpetual, annual tax on property. The USA, once the leader of the free world, has a less-just tax policy than Croatia? Than Malta? Than Dubai? America should be leading the way by example - in abolishing the barbaric anachronism of residential property taxation entirely, as a new human rights paradigm for the entire world. We must fight to make that abolition a reality;
2. A nationwide review, divestiture and selloff to private American citizens, of all government-held lands not directly related to physical government facilities. Though it's predicated almost entirely on surface issues of stewardship and economic practicality rather than on core ethics and human rights, in 1999 the Cato Institute published a comprehensive blueprint for such a privatization:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa363.pdf
3. The de facto abolition of the "United Nations," a.k.a. The International Tyrants' Day Care Center, Manhattan Campus - comprising: a.) The cessation of all funding of that organization, b.) the expulsion of that organization from American soil, c.) the nullification of all "treaties" and agreements entered into under its auspices, d.) the public declaration of America's non-recognition of any legitimacy in the "UN"'s claim of authority over sovereign nations or any claim of legitimacy in its quasi-military forces, and e.) the strong recommendation to all of our allies that they follow suit on a through d. Let that remaining clutch of the world's tyrants stare at each other across plastic tables in the banquet hall of a greasy-spoon diner on Madagascar or Kiribati and plot their cartoon world-conquest schemes from there.
Longtime Objectivists will fondly recall the periodical called The Intellectual Activist. I think we've gotten a bit too lax on the whole "activist" thing...
Can't they stop these private equity firms from buying houses?
You are correct, it wasn't accidental. First the rental and mortgage market was loaded with non-paying customers then demand they have to pay back rent/mortgage payments and you have a flood of people needing housing and a 'Lord' ready to provide it under certain conditions. Classic statist chess move, create the problem then solve it with enslavement to guarantee access to the solution by the masses.