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Lots of rentals has been sold to there tenants the last decade or so, especially in Stockholm. When the right wing is in power locally, they sell of the rentals and do it for bargain prices. Those who can afford to buy make a hefty profit and who cares about the rest?
by A swedish kind of death on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 09:17:13 PM EST
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We need a constitutional amendment that makes selling off public property at a fraction of its value a punishable offence. Otherwise this bullshit cycle of piratisations and re-nationalisations (i.e. right-wing handouts to favoured groups) is going to continue indefinitely.

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 11:14:50 AM EST
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JakeS:
Otherwise this bullshit cycle of piratisations and re-nationalisations (i.e. right-wing handouts to favoured groups) is going to continue indefinitely.

It is no longer a case of either Public = "State owned", or Private = "owned by a (Joint Stock Limited Liability) Company or 'Corporation' ".

It is in fact quite possible to use trust or partnership law frameworks, instead of company law, to "unitise" production, or revenues from sale of production of assets in public ownership.

It's in this "Both/And" space that the solution lies, IMHO, in new "Open" forms of Capital of indefinite duration.

So this bullshit cycle won't continue indefinitely: it will end indefinitely.

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 06:55:13 PM EST
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