I'm running for Oakland District 1 City Council on a platform of radically transformative changes in the way local government transacts and interfaces with citizens. Municipal/State/National budgets and general funds are our collective wealth and yes, we must Organize and restructure ourselves today and live and breathe the post-capitalist visions that will provide security and care for all of us, not just a select few.
Your words are echoed in every beat of my heart. I'm connecting with my community and encouraging participation to together make Oakland, California a locus of change. A revolutionary hotbed of post-capitalist doing and being. An example of the hard work it will take to prepare the political soil that we need to plant the seeds that will make the shade for our great grandkids.
Up here on the CT shoreline, I worry with every rainstorm that all of the folks living in the basements of the run down, used to be mansions of our run down waterfront cities, are going to have no where to go. Since the rains in July, which resulted in rivers running down the city streets, through their homes and into the Sound, nothing has been done to address this huge safety concern. The wealthy families who used to live in the "down stream" mansions now live up in the hills so it's all good. Me? I'm in the middle, hoping the hills and trees don't come down on us, but I know nothing will change even of it they do.
I'm loving all the worker's Union wins of late, and wanting to find out more about local tenant advocacy.
Thank you for your writing. Its the best thing thing I took with me when we escaped Twitter 😊
Sep 29, 2023·edited Oct 2, 2023Liked by Joshua P. Hill
The priorities of western society are so wrong right now. The money should be redirected from military and policing to addressing the climate emergency and all the urgent social issues that need attention.
The fixing of NYC alone to be resilient to floods like today along with rising sea level would be one of the largest engineering projects in human history. Maybe just abandon lower levels and people live higher and higher? Sci-fi books with that as a theme are already there, it would be cheaper than a fix. If sea level increases just a meter most of Manhattan is toast, and such a scenario comes closer every day. The northern edge of the Great Lakes might be a good refuge, maybe that's just me.
This piece blames recent disasters on the climate crisis with no evidence to back that claim up, blames the “capitalists” for the poor housing conditions in New York without a discussion of the government laws that potentially make it harder for capitalists to build and maintain good homes at all (there is a vast economic literature here), and somehow imagines that we can have all basic necessities taken care of for “free” by the government, without a discussion of how that will affect tax rates, change wealth creation incentives, and could make things worse, not better.
I do take issue with “clearly a climate issue”. The eruption of the Tonga volcano shot 4 trillion gallons of water into the atmosphere/stratosphere in January’22. NASA says that a greenhouse effect will be present.
Your ideas are certainly radical, but they're also compelling and idealistic. You're envisioning a world where the needs of the many outweigh the wants of the few, and where resources are shared more equitably. It's true that the way our society is currently structured, with a small percentage of people controlling the vast majority of wealth and power, isn't working for everyone. But it's also not clear how we could make such a dramatic change in our current political and economic systems. Even if everyone agreed that it was the right thing to do, there would still be huge barriers to overcome.
I'm running for Oakland District 1 City Council on a platform of radically transformative changes in the way local government transacts and interfaces with citizens. Municipal/State/National budgets and general funds are our collective wealth and yes, we must Organize and restructure ourselves today and live and breathe the post-capitalist visions that will provide security and care for all of us, not just a select few.
Your words are echoed in every beat of my heart. I'm connecting with my community and encouraging participation to together make Oakland, California a locus of change. A revolutionary hotbed of post-capitalist doing and being. An example of the hard work it will take to prepare the political soil that we need to plant the seeds that will make the shade for our great grandkids.
Up here on the CT shoreline, I worry with every rainstorm that all of the folks living in the basements of the run down, used to be mansions of our run down waterfront cities, are going to have no where to go. Since the rains in July, which resulted in rivers running down the city streets, through their homes and into the Sound, nothing has been done to address this huge safety concern. The wealthy families who used to live in the "down stream" mansions now live up in the hills so it's all good. Me? I'm in the middle, hoping the hills and trees don't come down on us, but I know nothing will change even of it they do.
I'm loving all the worker's Union wins of late, and wanting to find out more about local tenant advocacy.
Thank you for your writing. Its the best thing thing I took with me when we escaped Twitter 😊
The priorities of western society are so wrong right now. The money should be redirected from military and policing to addressing the climate emergency and all the urgent social issues that need attention.
The fixing of NYC alone to be resilient to floods like today along with rising sea level would be one of the largest engineering projects in human history. Maybe just abandon lower levels and people live higher and higher? Sci-fi books with that as a theme are already there, it would be cheaper than a fix. If sea level increases just a meter most of Manhattan is toast, and such a scenario comes closer every day. The northern edge of the Great Lakes might be a good refuge, maybe that's just me.
This piece blames recent disasters on the climate crisis with no evidence to back that claim up, blames the “capitalists” for the poor housing conditions in New York without a discussion of the government laws that potentially make it harder for capitalists to build and maintain good homes at all (there is a vast economic literature here), and somehow imagines that we can have all basic necessities taken care of for “free” by the government, without a discussion of how that will affect tax rates, change wealth creation incentives, and could make things worse, not better.
I do take issue with “clearly a climate issue”. The eruption of the Tonga volcano shot 4 trillion gallons of water into the atmosphere/stratosphere in January’22. NASA says that a greenhouse effect will be present.
Your ideas are certainly radical, but they're also compelling and idealistic. You're envisioning a world where the needs of the many outweigh the wants of the few, and where resources are shared more equitably. It's true that the way our society is currently structured, with a small percentage of people controlling the vast majority of wealth and power, isn't working for everyone. But it's also not clear how we could make such a dramatic change in our current political and economic systems. Even if everyone agreed that it was the right thing to do, there would still be huge barriers to overcome.