Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Truly Capitalist Things

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

> And if we move homes/housing out of the _capitalist_ economy and into the 
> _sharing_ economy, what happens then??

I have no great affinity for capitalism.
But I can't see a way to get home sale prices out of capitalism in the 
foreseeable future.

Remember that home sales are at the intersection of cohousing and the 
world--almost all sales are to someone who is not yet in cohousing, Many of the 
people selling are leaving cohousing. 
Money's got to change hands, and the amount needs to match some definition of 
fair. For the people coming in and for the people going out (that is, the 
buyers and the sellers), "fair" is determined by what the market will bear. 
Those leaving need that money to be able to get their next housing.

> Ponder the emerging worldview of Millennials who are shunning personal 
> ownership of houses and cars, embracing social sharing (e.g. Uber, AirBnB, 
> cooperative financing), and redefining alternative models of career and 
> education (to obviate indebtedness) — “co-housing” (largely a product of the 
> Boomer culture as we know it) will likely morph to something beyond a “truly 
> capitalist thing”.

Hunh. I'd call Uber and airbnb capitalism extremism. You too can get outside of 
labor laws, anti-discriminatino laws and more by just creating a business you 
call "social sharing". And again, the price is set by what the market will 
bear, not based on the actual cost 

And anyone shunning personal ownership of a home, and yet living in one, means 
that someone else owns the home and is making money simply by "letting" you use 
their capital investment and taking your money. How is that outside of 
capitalism?

-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org
www.mosaic-commons.org
508-450-0431




On Oct 17, 2015, at 2:08 PM, William New <wnew [at] stillcreek.net> wrote:

> 
> 
>> On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Home prices are one of those truly capitalist things--the home sells for 
>> exactly the amount a person is willing to pay for it.
> 
> And if we move homes/housing out of the _capitalist_ economy and into the 
> _sharing_ economy, what happens then??
> 
> Ponder the emerging worldview of Millennials who are shunning personal 
> ownership of houses and cars, embracing social sharing (e.g. Uber, AirBnB, 
> cooperative financing), and redefining alternative models of career and 
> education (to obviate indebtedness) — “co-housing” (largely a product of the 
> Boomer culture as we know it) will likely morph to something beyond a “truly 
> capitalist thing”.
> 
> === Bill
> 
> William New
> StillCreek Commons
> 94062-0951
> 
> 
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