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their deaths happened long before misc/poetry

their deaths happened long
Before. It happened in the minds of people who never saw
Them. It happened in the profit margins. It happened
In the laws. They died because money could be saved and made.

—p.224 Salvage #5: Contractions A Place to Call Home (221) missing author
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surfeit

a surfeit of luxury homes while everyone else crams themselves into shared flats and ever-more constrained lives

—p.223 A Place to Call Home (221) missing author
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housing as a means to accumulate capital

There is so much to say about a system that increasingly treats housing as a means to accumulate capital, never as a home. A creeping worldview that only understands the value of housing as a commodity, as something to be bought and sold, speculated in, land banked. To them, where you live is only …

—p.222 A Place to Call Home (221) missing author
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A Place to Call Home (missing author)

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sarcasm is both this-worldly and other-worldly

However irresistible, it is of course resisted. If the form of prophesy is invoked, it is also to tacitly admit that we cannot be prophets. There is no Word of God to which we, mere flesh, could or should be subjected. And so we must analyse our situation with ruthless scorn, not sentimental illusi…

—p.218 Not: Marxism as 'Organised Sarcasm' (209) by Richard Seymour