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Shopping Malls
At the edges of cities, one can see the development of stores in corrugated metal (or metal cladding) warehouses — with ground-floor layouts and extensive parking lots in front, behind, or surrounding them. These prefabricated structures offer significant cost savings and rapid construction. The investment per square meter is substantially lower than that of an architecturally…
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We’re all in it together
The Republicans, Richard Nixon with the opening up to China in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan with the relocation of manufacturing to Mexico in the 1980s, put quantities of products on the market at lower prices than before. This was presented as a gift to purchasing power. It gave people more disposable income. Landlords then…
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Price ceilings and price floors
Food, housing, energy, education, health and arms cannot be left to the market. We need to control prices. These are not consumer goods. They are commodities essential to human needs. The very reason for civilization is to be able to provide these necessities. They are not goods to enrich a part of the population. People…
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Housing
Why is housing so expensive, whether to buy or rent? Why are people forced to pay when “the right to housing is a human right.” With limited financial means, it’s hard to find affordable, good-quality housing. ((Le droit au logement est un droit humain– Human Rights: https://www.humanrights.ch/fr/nouvelles/droit-humain-logement) In the cities, prices have skyrocketed. They have…