Forum Post: What should we do about oversized mansions?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 18, 2011, 2:21 p.m. EST by ArrestAllCEOS
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I saw this show on TV today where they were going around showing tours of mansions, symbols of excess and greed, and I immediately became sick to my stomach and was outraged. These just represent obscene, sickening, immoral, illogical, unnecessary amounts of wealth.
Why does someone need a 6,000+ square foot house?
I propose that we add a demand that along with income caps (which has been brilliantly suggested by several members) that we allow the government to seize homes larger than a certain square footage. Then they can appoint several families to live there communally. This way we won't spend extra money bulldozing them down.
Thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
I propose we quit trying to regulate other people when they aren't infringing on your ability to pursue life, liberty and happiness.
Why does someone need a 6000+ sqft home? I don't know and it doesn't impact me. I'm fine in 2000. What if someone thinks that's too much? Or 600 is too much?
Who are you to determine some range?
It's not the government's job to cap earnings or what we buy so long as we don't infringe on the rights of others or unduly influence our politicians.
coporate and rich elitist control is not infringeing our liberty or happiness? Thats like saying a slave has freedom of speech lol
Corporate and rich elitist control IS infringing on liberty.
But ownership of a mansion and willfully influencing and controlling our elected politicians are two different aspects.
Failure to divide the two issues is tantamount to the same infringement of liberty that you seem to be decrying.
They'd make great homeless shelters.
Isn't that what they did in St. Petersburg? (Yes.)
LMAO
Everything about your thought process and post is both obscene and sickening.
nothing they have nothing to do with the problem at hand.
I think people should be able to have houses as big as they can afford. The problem isn't people who own huge houses, the problem is people who own disproportionate amounts of the means of production!
I think that once we fix the distribution of the ownership of the means of production the rest will fall into place by itself. Yes, we will still have huge houses and they will still be very expensive. With no ultra-rich people anymore, of course, such houses would lower in price until they come into range of working people. I think that if a working man wants a huge house so much that he is willing to spend the vast majority of his income to buy it he should be able to have it.
Of course, without the ultra wealthy in the system such houses, given their price, would probably end up owned by groups anyway. See? Fix the means of production and it should all work out in the end!
In time, this will happen organically. No government intervention required. As the rich flee to Dubai and Macau... to escape punishment... the poor will simply take control of their mansions and start their own communities... kind of like a castle and serfdom... and like it has been predicted by many analysts... we'll all revert back to the Middle Ages.