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I've seriously been considering checking out what it would take to build homes and just make a company that only builds starter homes that can't be sold to corporations. Fuck this system running out of control... Rent through the roof and no housing for the poor/lower middle class....
I absofuckinglutley do not in the slightest bit care about being rich, if the company could survive and support a "normal" life for me that would be more than enough.
It's absolutely absurd that we allow the market to run rampant like this and just shrug it off. "Housing crisis? I don't see one, we're selling large houses like hot cakes! Most well over asking price!"
So something like a for (ethical) profit Habitat for Humanity? I have had a similar fantasy, start companies in each of the major problem sectors that operate openly and honestly only slightly above solvency and offer quality at good prices just to drive the greedy fucks out of business, then I just stay there. I don't take advantage of the monopoly, I just live as I have been. I envision putting the actual material and labor cost of each product on the packaging in plain English. Kinda like a dietary and ingredients info table for a television. Don't put in spyware, don't put in random hidden cameras behind a screen, don't take permissions on devices so I can listen in on people. Do a bank that micro-lends at a 1% markup from the interest rates on my savings accounts. Make everything repairable and put a wiring schematic on the inside of the case if it is a large enough unit. Etc. You know, be ethical in the way I treat my employees and customers. I know, radical concept. I guess that is just the effect of having a math degree, I'm used to radical concepts.