Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months agoThe point is that there are beds that nobody are using while people are forced to sleep on the ground. Because, yes, a store is unused at night.
It’s about resources not being used as efficiently as they could be, because we are looking at the situation from a capitalistic ideology point of view.
The point is that there are beds that nobody are using while people are forced to sleep on the ground.
If you let a guy sleep on it, then you can’t sell it. Who would buy it? The bed isn’t “not being used”, it’s not being used as a bed.
It’s about resources not being used as efficiently as they could be
There’s nothing inefficient about this allocation of resources.
Showroom beds are usually not the beds that are actually sold. The beds that get sold sit in storage.
The chances that person has bedbugs is non-zero. The chances they haven’t showered are also not exactly low. Putting them in a showroom bed could ruin it.
I really want a solution to house people because it’s an untenable situation, but ‘let them sleep in a bed showroom’ is not a good solution.
Why are you gargling capitalist balls?
100% property taxes on all properties that have sat empty for more than X% of the time the property has existed
Eh, bed stores are a particularly ridiculous waste of resources. The average bed store sells like 6-8 mattresses a month, which is inefficient and dumb.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I don’t think the beds are the problem. Housing a single person takes much more resources than just a single bed. Those resources are scarce.
hswolf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are not, we have everything we need for all the 8 billion people living on this rock
sharing.org/information-centre/…/enough-everyone
The first problem is the word “profit”, most people who can make astronomical differences, wont move a finger if there’s no profit in It.
The second problem is logistics, it’s hard to get things around the globe in an organized fashion, and this is usually overcome with big incentives, which brings us to the first problem again.