Every new business model now is just insinuating themselves into an existing structure so they can grift/leech money out for themselves. They call it “innovation “.
This doesn’t fight gentrification, it isgentrification. The people who would be able to pay into this scheme aren’t the types who need to worry about their neighbourhood becoming so ‘improved’ that they can’t afford to live there anymore.
The only way that neighborhoods can protect themselves from gentrification is through community land trusts.
These are horribly complex to setup and require the purchase of property which is very time consuming.
The communities that need CLTs the most are the least likely to have the resources to form one.
Exactly. I live in an area being gentrified. I hate that anything nice means I won’t be able to keep living here but I can’t afford to live somewhere with nice things
Everywhere I move in Ohio winds up gentrified if it isn’t bumfuck nowhere. Like fuckin hell there’s not even bus service out this far and the landlord is trying to gentrify. I used to live in a place with street dealers, apartment fires, and pest infestations and now that neighborhood has luxury housing. This wasn’t long ago, they were building it when I moved out mid pandemic
This is basically just as opaque as a charity or HOA, with different steps. Which is great unless your community is poor.
My contention with this concept is that with taxes, I can vote for people that manage both the money gathering rules and how it is spent. That and the money typically works in a much larger pool spread across a wide range of socioeconomic groups, which can vastly improve its reach and capability. On top of all that, it’s also transparent. My guess is this has no such features.
Cooperative Capital lets people pool small amounts of money, vote on how they want to invest it to improve their neighborhood–and then generates returns.
I’m not saying this is good or bad. But you wrote a lot a received great feedback from the community despite no one actually reading what it is, evidently.
I was watching a thing not too long ago where a dude was praising the “safety net” of home and health insurance and almost in the next breath complaining how socialized medicine was a scam and welfare
I was like “MF you JUST said you wanted a group safety net”
First I thought this was dumb, but actually… It doesn’t seem like taxes really get distributed to everyone. I live in a poor neighborhood and our streets are all jacked up, but somehow the rich neighborhoods always have nice streets. Am I paying taxes so the rich people get nicer streets? How do I get the city to fix our roads too?
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Yes we’ve had taxes but what about second taxes
but this is voluntary! said the rich guy while frantically masturbating
No, tech bros discover co-operative banking.
But this way third parties can get their cut.
Every new business model now is just insinuating themselves into an existing structure so they can grift/leech money out for themselves. They call it “innovation “.
they finally found a way to add a built in service fee to taxes. i just hope this new model is compatible with turbo tax premium
*HOAs which reinvented taxes
So its taxes all the way down…
this is how to fight gentrification but sure white girl call it taxes.
This doesn’t fight gentrification, it is gentrification. The people who would be able to pay into this scheme aren’t the types who need to worry about their neighbourhood becoming so ‘improved’ that they can’t afford to live there anymore.
The only way that neighborhoods can protect themselves from gentrification is through community land trusts. These are horribly complex to setup and require the purchase of property which is very time consuming. The communities that need CLTs the most are the least likely to have the resources to form one.
Exactly. I live in an area being gentrified. I hate that anything nice means I won’t be able to keep living here but I can’t afford to live somewhere with nice things
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Everywhere I move in Ohio winds up gentrified if it isn’t bumfuck nowhere. Like fuckin hell there’s not even bus service out this far and the landlord is trying to gentrify. I used to live in a place with street dealers, apartment fires, and pest infestations and now that neighborhood has luxury housing. This wasn’t long ago, they were building it when I moved out mid pandemic
Every politcian: So how do we funnel this money to kill foreigners while profiting by taking kickbacks from weapon manufacturers?
Pretty sure it’s only the last part that matters.
Killing the foreigners is usually way secondary.
This is basically just as opaque as a charity or HOA, with different steps. Which is great unless your community is poor.
My contention with this concept is that with taxes, I can vote for people that manage both the money gathering rules and how it is spent. That and the money typically works in a much larger pool spread across a wide range of socioeconomic groups, which can vastly improve its reach and capability. On top of all that, it’s also transparent. My guess is this has no such features.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40553334/this-startup-lets-neighbors-pool-their-money-to-invest-in-their-communities
I’m not saying this is good or bad. But you wrote a lot a received great feedback from the community despite no one actually reading what it is, evidently.
I was watching a thing not too long ago where a dude was praising the “safety net” of home and health insurance and almost in the next breath complaining how socialized medicine was a scam and welfare
I was like “MF you JUST said you wanted a group safety net”
But they unironically would rather spend more on insurance than risk having any of their money go to the poors.
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Could you elaborate?
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I lived and worked in a lot of poor communities and neighborhoods.
We have to organize our own clean ups, our own neighborhood watch, our own events.
Richer neighborhoods get a lot more resources from the city.
Give it a few more year and honestly i can see AI capable of pulling this off
Yeah, but these “taxes” get used on their stuff, and none of those other people get any of that money.
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First I thought this was dumb, but actually… It doesn’t seem like taxes really get distributed to everyone. I live in a poor neighborhood and our streets are all jacked up, but somehow the rich neighborhoods always have nice streets. Am I paying taxes so the rich people get nicer streets? How do I get the city to fix our roads too?
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Everyone’s commenting like they don’t know this is voluntary, unlike taxes.
Agree or disagree, at least understand your opponent’s actual position rather than fighting a straw man.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40553334/this-startup-lets-neighbors-pool-their-money-to-invest-in-their-communities
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I’d be in if this allowed secession from traditional state taxes and local codes
Natalie thinks she’s clever but doesn’t know the difference between taxation and a co-operative.
you reminded me of the google chrome automatic tab sorting using ai
it sends the url and title of all your open tabs to google (very privacy friendly!!)
and it puts tabs into different colored categories with short titles and emoji icons next to them
for example if i have open the sites for a bunch of search engines it might create a category called “Search Engine 🔍”
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