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When a society is collapsing slowly (eg USSR), or undergoing a long crisis (WW2, Covid) over many years, with supplies being unreliable, the short-term response seems to be hoarding and fattening at the last mile, for both people and orgs, but what’s the long-term (>2y) response?
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I was only tweeting about wanting a ironically, and maybe in metaverse but wife called my bluff so we are h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ mansion-hunting for real now 😖 Serves me right What I really unironically want is a mansion in a backpack
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We looked at a few houses this weekend, had no idea track houses in subdivisions had grown to literal mansion scale. Ticky-tacky Stabdard Track McMansions. “65 4br 3000-4000 sqft luxury homes now available with 13 floor plans” sorta thing Funny how they always call them “homes”
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At some point in the chain, some institution will have ownership responsibility, and what current institutions do you trust to treat renters fairly rather than constantly extort? I think, at some level, that's the calculus behind increased "fattening" and ownership.
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lol you want that *when society is collapsing*? as if you won't be facing unpredictable renting and hiring costs, if you can even get anything?
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The World Economic Forum started calling this part of “The Great Reset” and you can currently start a fight about it.
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