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Building Industry:
"theoretically leads toward ultimate–but rarely realized–‘owning.’ To keep on underwriting the inefficiencies of miniature castle building of the Building & Real Estate enterprise system, their governments would now have to give the housing to the median class and ‘forget about the lower half of humanity as unhousable.’
"When corporate managements unilaterally raise prices to gain more profits for their particular stockholders (who will throw out the management if it does not do so) the now well-organized labor unions hit for equivalent wage increases (lest the labor leaders themselves lose their jobs).
"To own your own private home’s physical prototype house prototype was the private castle of yesteryear’s land barons, which it was economically feasible to build only because the building workers were paid little or nothing more than their daily grub, sleeping in servants’ quarters or in huts on the master’s land, receiving nothing to save toward buying their own homes.
¶ Citations
- ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.18; 20 Sep’76
