Continuing the conversation we were having about keeping people moving and isolated, I asked him, “How do you encourage people to keep moving?” I wanted to know more about the process.
“Mostly through property taxes and rent increases. We keep consumers moving every few years. Along with increasing individualism, it also helps with city wide development plans. It is a sort of synergy between the need to renew areas of cities, and the need to keep people from settling for too long. Those that understand how to live as individual consumers are rewarded with new buildings and homes, new shops and recreation. Those that hold on to their old communities will eventually be forced out and dispersed. Progress has no place for people who do not accept individualism.
The more he talks about individualism, the more I see it as a social experiment that has failed to support people’s needs. It creates further suffering. He talks about individualism, like everyone gets to choose their own path, but I am beginning to see it more like a cage that separates everyone from each other. Individualists want their culture to be the only culture.
He was still talking. I had been thinking, and lost track of what he was saying. I was very annoyed with him, and he saw it on my face.
“Don’t look at me like that”, he said. “People are perfectly capable of investing their money wisely in land”, he said. “Everyone has the same opportunities. Consumers sabotage themselves, because they share with others. If people saved their money, and invested it in property and companies, they would have enough money to own a home. It’s one of the qualities we look for in our club members. They must own land and pass it on to their descendants. They must demonstrate that they understand how to use money wisely, and take care of their families. Our families carry on our legacies. Corporations may extend our legacies, but it’s our families that maintain them.”
I get so tired of his superiority. Rich people really cannot understand how poor people live. Some of the things he says are so ignorant and outlandish. Poor people do not have money to save and invest. Sharing is the only way many people get by. Without support from their friends and families, they would be homeless and starving. Sharing is what makes us human.
No one chooses to rent, rather than buy a home. It is economically forced on people. There are economic and social barriers to upward mobility. As he has stated before, they are constructed intentionally to keep people from living better lives. They consistently blame their victims.
“It is a natural consequence of the market.”, he continued. “When property values go up, property taxes go up, rents go up, so people have to move. If people are smart, they will never rent a home. Renting is just throwing away money. It is a trap to weed out the weaker humans. A smart person buys property, even if they have to take out a loan to do so. They research the tax rates, and find property which they can hold and maintain. Once they own property they can use it, rent it, or sell it as their needs require. The money they invest in it will be returned to them when they sell it.”
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