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originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: IAMALLYETALLIAM
It’s not the capitalist system, it’s a corrupt corporate monopoly more akin to fascism at fault here. Capitalism should offer competition and therefore choice, what’s actually happening is a new kind of fuedalism.
originally posted by: Ahabstar
Now I’m not saying anything but Meth Labs and trailer parks go together like tornadoes and trailer parks. And Meth Labs have a tendency to explode rather violently when disturbed.
Not saying there is going to be a whole lot of explosions, but that’s how you get a whole lot of explosions…just pointing it out.
“In perpetuity” means “forever”, and the designation of the land can never be changed. So if the land was needed for a better use at some point in the future, it couldn’t happen. It essentially removes the land from its possible “highest and best use” by second-guessing what will happen 20 – 50 – 100 years from now.
Today, this utopian idea is being promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF has become an outreach of the United Nations. One solution put forward about housing is “Partnerships between community land trusts, which own and steward land on behalf of a community, and municipal land banks, which acquire vacant land and prepare it for development. “