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I don't think housing should be considered a human right, unless being homeless is made illegal. But, being homeless is practically illegal everywhere, so here we are, agreeing with one another.
I try to think to myself - at what point do we call for things to be considered human rights? At what point in human history did we start considering clean water to be a human right? -- Generally once we had massive cheap, clean, unfettered access to it, right?
Companies and corporations, want their workers healthy, housed, disease free, etc. So -- if they want those things, they should be considered 'rights' and we should collect taxes on making sure those rights are distributed, shouldn't we?
Just why? Every single human being deserve to have access to housing, water, food, education, etc. We NEED those things.
No they don't. They want to pay as little as possible for you to produce as much as possible, it's literally the logic of the system. Corporations don't care about their workers, customers or anyone but their owners and investors.
If they could slave people they would. And look at that, they actually do.
Just realized its a .world user, they can't see my comment lol.