[lbo-talk] Asshole NYTimes reporter says Berliners have been spoiled by low rents

[joel schalit]

As a fellow Berliner, I hereby confirm, this guy is an asshole. But
what else would you expect from the NYT? I haven't read it, with any
seriousness, in years. Precisely, I might add, because of content like
this.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "The problem is that Germans have been spoiled by proactive government policies designed to fund affordable housing and promote mixed-income living spaces."
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> http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/bobos-in-berlin/
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> Also love the typical neolib description of "globalization" as a sheer force of nature, that just sort of magically dismantles welfare states.
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