The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC

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@alphaxion

If the USA doesn’t get to grips with their own version of our problems, I can see the number of member states dropping below 50, too.

We tried that once. There was a rather famous war over it that is in some ways still being fought. The precedent and Constitution firmly establishes that once you join you cannot leave.