Capitalism collapsed shortly after 2020 as the visibility of increasing wealth inequality resulted in a wave of global protests. The year 2020 is remembered as the year working people everywhere organized against their landlords. It was the year that people came to realize that housing is not optional, but a basic human necessity and right, pressuring cities everywhere to use eminent domain to seize vacant homes and lots to be repurposed for housing and to abolish zoning laws that prevented new housing from being built in certain neighborhoods. A mass gardening movement spread across the globe, as disrupted supply chains and food shortages highlighted the need to harvest crops locally — and also the inherent health benefits of gardening as a craft and hobby. The cost of education, already out of reach of working families, led to the collapse of the higher education system, while simultaneously ushering in a new era of community-led education and shared libraries.

I am most inspired today, in 2020, by the movement of Black mothers occupying vacant homes that have been seized by banks as protest of growing housing inequality and homelessness. This movement was already well underway prior to Covid-19, and the pandemic further demonstrated the need to consider housing a basic human right. https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

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