People in Nairobi complain about the rent and cost of living, just as people in Newcastle or Frankfurt.

@wuppi @AwetTesfaiesus @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski @LaChasseuse The German green party was government until recently.

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People in Nairobi complain about the rent and cost of living, just as people in Newcastle or Frankfurt.

Yet, everybody thinks that this is somehow a local phenomenon: they think: my city isn't working, my country isn't working.

These aren't local issues. It's the same issue manifesting everywhere.

@ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski and #ukgreens is the right topic at the right time. Stop running and look, so hope becomes normal again.

@AwetTesfaiesus @electricfusionQ

> "**DGAF**"
Might be worth a Merch Shirt?

"DGAF" and, tiny font below, "(Don't give a Fuck)"

@coastgnu @electricfusionQ "Das Gut Awet Freut's"

@AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski yeah it takes time. My home loan is about 30y, but the fact is in the end, that house will be paid off for my children. They can live in it or sell it and do as they please. I may be a janitor, but it is to my kids, not to the bank.

@PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski

Buying a house in a municipality next to Frankfurt costs around 500k €. Mortgage payment over 30 years will be almost as much. That's like 2.5k a month.

That's unrealistic for most folk. Especially when they have kids. Heck, I know single parents who had to go into debt just because of a blow of fate.

I'm so fucking sick of rentier capitalism. And better alternatives with more common property are possible.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/115941198098862825

People in Nairobi complain about the rent and cost of living, just as people in Newcastle or Frankfurt.

Yet, everybody thinks that this is somehow a local phenomenon: they think: my city isn't working, my country isn't working.

These aren't local issues. It's the same issue manifesting everywhere.

@ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski and #ukgreens is the right topic at the right time. Stop running and look, so hope becomes normal again.

@AwetTesfaiesus

Haha!

Als ich den Clip gestern gesehen habe, habe schon ich überlegt, wie ich ihn den deutschen Grünen als Inspiration zukommen lasse.

Das hat sich jetzt wohl erledigt.

So viel besser als Hundeblick im Wollpulli auf Plakaten.

PS: Du hast mich neulich überzeugt. Ich bin eingetreten.

@mina Das schonmal seeeeehr schön, entbindet aber absolut nicht davon, den Clip zu pushen und zu teilen.

@Hachka @wuppi @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski @LaChasseuse 'was government' might be a bit of a stretch to say th least.

Maybe even a malevolent misrepresentation.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_deutschen_Bundesregierungen

@AwetTesfaiesus @wuppi @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski @LaChasseuse I am almost 70 and have lieved through almost all governments that you are so kind to remind me of. I cheered when the first greens came into the bundestag, I elected them. Only to find out htat the green party was excellent for environment solutions, but the same old story for small people like me with their small lives: You up there -- us down here. At least they tried to preseve a world we can struggle in.

@AwetTesfaiesus @wuppi @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski @LaChasseuse I am almost 70 and have lieved through almost all governments that you are so kind to remind me of. I cheered when the first greens came into the bundestag, I elected them. Only to find out htat the green party was excellent for environment solutions, but the same old story for small people like me with their small lives: You up there -- us down here. At least they tried to preseve a world we can struggle in.

@billiglarper @PedroLeal_ @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski

No intention to safe the reputation of capitalism, but I am pretty sure market capitalism died before 2010. It's over now and none of us won.

@PedroLeal_ @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski happy to hear this

@PedroLeal_ @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski

Buying a house in a municipality next to Frankfurt costs around 500k €. Mortgage payment over 30 years will be almost as much. That's like 2.5k a month.

That's unrealistic for most folk. Especially when they have kids. Heck, I know single parents who had to go into debt just because of a blow of fate.

I'm so fucking sick of rentier capitalism. And better alternatives with more common property are possible.

@AwetTesfaiesus @PedroLeal_ @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski

I think I see where you are coming from. But it's still the same system, isn't it?

The slant of the system isn't towards competition, but the opposite. Towards cartels, monopolies and concentration of power. Get rid of competition, then squeeze.

The 90s and 00s saw a lot of privatization, often at the municipal level. Like hospitals or housing. By now, this has condensed into a few big players.

@AwetTesfaiesus @PedroLeal_ @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski

And they squeeze for all they got. They have the capital to snatch up any asset that becomes available. Coops and private folks can't compete on new plots when they become available. The smaller players have little incentive to challenge them - they can simply follow the price trend.

Landlords in Frankfurt don't charge what it costs to run a flat plus some interest. It's no competition. They charge what others are charging.

@billiglarper @AwetTesfaiesus @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski unfortunately many people have forgotten that life doesn't happen only around major cities. I live in a formerly rural area which sits around 40km from a major city. It is today a small town and while I can't walk or take a bus/subway to the mall, I can enjoy spending time with my family on the yard and garden, where they can play while I spend my weekends mending fences, mowing lawn, etc. It's a lifestyle choice.

@Hachka @wuppi @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski @LaChasseuse

I know exactly what live at the bottom end of society feels like. From a decade as a lawyer Social Law, and from very, very personal experience.

Change comes around, if people get together, form broad coalitions, demand change and refuse to give in.

@PedroLeal_ @billiglarper @die_Leo @ScottishGreens @ZackPolanski

For so many, this is by no means a "choice" in the sense, that it was made free of need nor coercion.

But you are right in principle. I advocate for 'rural living' as often as I can.