• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    18 days ago

    In the UK at least food is really cheap. But housing costs an absolute fortune in comparison.

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        18 days ago

        More than that, they make living in a temporary structure nearly impossible to do legally.

        Why do I need their fucking permission to live in a cabin out in the woods. I could build the cabin completely legally, the only part I can’t do legally is live in it.

        • Because industrialists at the beginning of the industrial revolution lobbied for private land ownership to push out common land ownership so people couldn’t eek out a subsistence life and were forced to work in factories in deplorable circumstances.