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Bleu  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where Should Poor People Live?

This is a very interesting article. I need more long non-fluffed articles in my life. I worry that in the future articles will be long but full of fluff, fluff, and more fluff. backtoyoujim, nice question to pose there. Of course there should be poor people but only to an extent in my opinion.





RansomIblis  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

|I need more long non-fluffed articles in my life.

Have you visited longform.org? A curated collection of excellent long-form essays. You can also check out this list of the best magazine articles ever, from Cool Tools' Kevin Kelly.

Bleu  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Very, very nice! Thank you for this! I love to lay in bed and read articles on my tablet in the early mornings and evenings when I have free time. This is exactly right up my alley!

RansomIblis  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You want to make the experience even better, sign up for an Instapaper account. You can install an Instapaper shortcut in Chrome, click on it, and it'll automatically transfer any longform article to Instapaper. Then, load up the Instapaper app in iOS or Android, and read to your heart's content without advertising or any other intrusive junk. Enjoy!

user-inactivated  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sorry ... I'm not trying to be glib. I think that is it insane that we have more empty houses than homeless in the US if statistics bandied about the internet are to be believed. And "business reasons" are given to stop the property redistributions because legal fictions fighting over a fiat currency say, "It will cost our bottom line."

And it is not that I think that projects like Quixote Village don't have real value to people that are in need. It is that the line of thinking panders to the status quo.