This is caused by banks’ securitization of houses, particularly the mortgage as a legal tool. If banking corporations lose the ability to accept mortgages upon houses the price level will fall by 90-99%. Since the States are responsible for registry maintenance and occupancy enforcement, there are fifty opportunities waiting for the taking. The first mover will experience an economic boom such as has never been seen before in history.

Here is my edgelord hot take: The REAL problems are even more systemic than that. One real problem is that the psychiatric industry is a money-making industry, not a sacred duty to reform or to humanize.

Conquest’s Third Law strikes again.

The psychiatric industry is one of the oldest parts of the “secular” quack theocracy… even with that meme-fied couch as confession booth.

Almost everything that theocracy under fig leaf does is a “scared duty” (aka “vain and unaccountable”)… what of it? Everything it does overgrows with bureaucracies. Everything it does turns into yet another pork ladder or patronage scheme — in best cases completely, more often still making the problem worse.

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Here is my edgelord hot take: The REAL problems are even more systemic than that. One real problem is that the psychiatric industry is a money-making industry, not a sacred duty to reform or to humanize. Another real problem is that many so-called therapists have terrible god complexes and severely subpar skills, so they do much more harm than good to their patients. Even if the shrinks had been given decades of funding for “behavioral health services,” they mostly would have served themselves, and they would have degraded and corrupted American culture.

Another real problem is the fact that “right” and “left” people are not honest about the biological limits of humanistic ethics. Some of the “right” edgelords just hope that the most dysfunctional drug addicts will die as quickly as possible and be forgotten — but these edgelords ignore the fact that the corpses are always lionized as martyrs. Some of the “left” edgelords are positive thinkers, clinging to an ideal vision where the George Floyds of America will suddenly become clean and sober particle physicists and neurosurgeons — but these edgelords live far away from poor people in a bubble of wealth and privilege.

Permitting drug addicts to kill themselves is too honest; it kills the American Dream of a tough, fair game in which the hard-working underdog can rise to the top. Endless throwing resources to keep drug addicts from dying is too dishonest, and America does not have the physical resources to send paramedics to Narcan all the junkies.

It is not safe for Americans honestly to discuss their crises under their real names. Honest grassroots organizers get SWATted. Logging onto 8kun through seven proxies to tell the truth anonymously does not build meaningful grassroots political communities.

I generally consider anonymous political speech to be the only practical recourse for most Americans, but some Americans are going to have to take the risk and attach their names to their unpleasant wake-up calls. Too much anonymity can actually be harmful, if that anonymity leads to nihilism; as one critic of anonymity once said: “… if Men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind; reason is of no use to us—the freedom of Speech may be taken away—and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-10840