Posted by obwon on June 02, 1997 at 09:40:17:
In Reply to: Re: You are the most selfish group I have ever come across posted by Stabilization forever on May 01, 1997 at 16:11:26:
: : You are the most selfish group I have ever come across. I guarantee
: : your all a bunch of ego-centric Baby Boomers. You should everything
: : should be handed to you on a silver platter. Well, get a life. Face
: : it, rent control is finally going to be abolished, bringing freedom to
: : all of the recent renters (mostly young) who are subsidizing your
: : under-market rates. Didn't you ever hear of capitalism.
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What you are saying here is of course patentedly absurd.
I'm quite sure that the older and more experienced people
who are affected, are well aware and support our capitalist
system. However we do not advocate that capitalist consider-
ations are available to all the activites of life! You,
however, seem too subsribe to this mode of thought, should
the prettiest girls go to the highest bidders as well? Is
this what you meant, in your heat driven haste, to reflect?
Nonsense! I'm sure you'll agree. So then what do we make
of the homes and community relationships that are built up
over the years? Are we to think that these intangibles should
also be sacrificed on the altar of captalism? There are of
course childern who would like to continue living in the homes
and neighborhoods where they lived and were raised.
There are people who value the neighborhood and the friends
they have made, as well as the effects of their homes! Yes!
There in lies the subtle difference that rubs! These are not
just commodities that we are speaking about! These are peoples
homes, homes where their lives and relationships have unfolded
and grown.
Perhaps at one time these apartments were what could have been
considered commodiable products, to be brought and sold to the
highest bidder or at whim. But once they are occupied over a
substantial/suitable lenght of time the become the personal
effects of the owners and their families. You Sir, would use
money! Mere dollars, to argue that 'Sally' at 80 should be forced
from her home. That here contribution to the neighborhood and
community be ignored or devalued! Why? So that some HotShot
well heeled newcommer might have his conviences served?
We should believe that it be meet and proper to turn grandmother
and grandfather out? That the higher prices of rentals and the
increased money will somehow make neighborhoods more gentle or
better places for all to live?
Let's take a break for a minute and think! What we have under
discussion is a place where outsiders are looking to come in to
live! Do you see the point? Or is it perhaps too subtle for
you to grasp? The people who lived there built something
attractive! So now that its done others want into something
they have little ability or desire to build themselves. They
want to buy in. To do so them must move the original people
out.
I'd not want to live in such a newly configured community
of such people with such calouse disregard for others. I'd
think that after a short while, they'd want to leave too.
Besides! Those people who are forced to move, will take
with them the attitudes and skills that helped make New York
such a great place to live! They will take that with them
and it will not be replaced. So we're actually talking about
saving the landlords from themselves.
Obwon
Thoughts for a
Sunday afternoon!
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