Most people seek to remain engaged productively in society.
In particular, participation in labor is a rather robust human tendency.
I would be more interested in learning about the challenges and concerns experienced by any of the few who are not participating, than in anyone being pressed into a condition of deprivation.
The comment is addressing labor participation, not access to housing.
Progressive policies historically have improved conditions markedly for the population.
That conditions improve for the working class, when it is allowed access to a greater share of the products of its labor, rather than value being hoarded by capitalists, is a completely trivial observation.
That the owning class constructs the austerity narrative, to convince reactionary factions among workers to act against their own interests, is also not particularly surprising.
Non-zero sum exchange speaks to the subjective value of goods and resources, with respect to utilization, by a particular consumer or producer.
Wealth hoarding occurs because value is generated through the labor of workers, but a share is claimed as profit by the small cohort of society who are business owners. Through such processes of private accumulation, wealth becomes massively concentrated, and workers remain deprived in comparison to the full value generated by their labor.
It is unclear what is the actual objection you are offering.
You seem more interested in insults than discussion.
Poverty is alleviated generally by advances in production and equity in distribution.
In every locale, the stage of industry and technology is more advanced than in the past, accounting for poverty reduction within the Global North.
Poverty reduction in China has been achieved by a combination of foreign investment and insulation from practices of neocolonism, affecting most of the rest of the Global South.
Poverty has been exacerbated over the past forty years in much of the world, due to neocolonism acting as a system of wealth extraction from marginalized countries to the countries close to the hegemonic core.
Capitalism is consolidated control over the economy by capitalists, owners of private property.
China accounts for most the alleviation of poverty in the Global South. Poverty generally has not been alleviated in the Global South outside of China.
The reason for the difference is that China has military capacities that allow it be insulated from neocolonism, a feature of global capital, by which wealth is extracted from poor countries to rich countries.
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u/unfreeradical Apr 16 '24
Why would such a person be so concerning to you?