Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]

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Cake day: May 13th, 2024

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  • It’s a public space where you can drink alcohol for relatively cheap.

    IDK, maybe it’s not as common as I think it is, but personally I often feel a weird urge to just get the fuck out of my apartment and be in a public space. Even if I don’t actually socialize or do anything interesting, just nice to like, be out of my room. And sometimes that takes the form of a walk in the park or whatever, but later in the day I guess I just like getting a beer in a cool little basement room with mood lighting.



  • “Prison slave labor builds homes”

    No landlord wants new housing build. And prison labor is rarely used in residential construction, or really construction at all.

    Treating housing as an investment is the real culprit of the current housing affordability crisis. Banks sold people on the idea that a house isn’t just place to live but an investment, and people want their investment to appreciate in value, which by nature means it has to get more expensive. There is a natural incentive for current housing owners to restrict supply to inflate value, this is true both of a company like Blackrock that owns thousands of homes, your local residential property kulak who owns two apartment buildings and a laundromat, and your grandpa and grandma who own a 3 bed room and plan on selling it to retire to Daytona Beach.




  • It’s an aesthetic. And yes aesthetics are political, but I think this is one of those ones that can go either way, in fact I feel that way about most “Punk” genres. There’s been progressive and reactionary cyberpunk, steampunk, whatever.

    Some of solar punk seems to be “hey what if we did Soviet brutalist commie blocks but with more greenery”, so a more naturalistic and whimsical version of dense, organized, urban-proletariat society, which I think is kinda cool. Other times it looks more like an idealized version of what “techno-feudalism” would look like, a quaint, pastoral, sustainable version of being petite-bourgeois.