You gonna steal it from people who actually work for a living?
Actually, take it from the bourgeoisie’s profits.
Or, even better, we should make it so that society as a whole owns the means of production. After all, the whole of society depends on the means of production, so it should own them. Gosh, then we could make social labor directly social; then we wouldn’t even need taxes!
It should be worth noting that with this post, not a lot of the homes - or resources - in this country aren’t necessarily owned by people who need it; or even worked in a traditional labor aspect. A lot of the properties in the US,
especially homes are held by hedge funds or banks in New York or elsewhere diversifying their financial assets to make even more money from nothing at some future date. But because these people own a very large chunk of homed-property it’s out of the reach of most people, even hard working people like me; or dare I say even Kyle perhaps. And even to the people who are homeless the problem isn’t that they probably do not want to work, but who may not be able to work; that they got kicked out of the work force because their skills could no longer keep up and there’s no advantage to being a coding beginner at the age of fifty in the silicon valley of central Appalachia that is Cumberland, Maryland or somewhere like Wassau, Wisconsin.
This is also overlooking any of the other issues that would put someone on the streets for no fault of their own; support networks falling apart from mental illness because we have such a weak support network there or a poor overall starting position and like the fifty year old being forced to learn basic HTML to get nothing has no where to go and so just sort of exists in garden sheds.
Homes are built for people to live in, to raise a family, to store their shit, and have somewhere to return to at the end of the day or for someone to send or refer useful materials like say: stuff for a savings or checking account and a permanent place to put on job forms. But because they’re not being used for this built use - their use value - but being used primarily for financial gain - their exchange value - the market price of homes are far above what’d be reachable for anyone. The problem at this point though is that since so many Boomers are putting their retirement into property and the current economic state has shifted home ownership towards the banks there’s damning financial disincentive to reallocate those properties. Morally and ethically it is not to take from people who have worked hard in favor of those who haven’t worked at all; more people who don’t work at all and get the most capital at the price of other people’s freedoms and liberties. But until the next market crash in the next two or four years I can’t see a viable point in the immediate future to change this. Unless we’re going to go full Maoist on these people.
