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How to Destroy Capital : Moral Actors in an Immoral Landscape Roorda, Hannah
Abstract
Within our system of advanced capitalism, what was once a means to provide shelter, housing and property are now mere assets, valued as a means of financial returns and wealth accumulation. Though housing deserves protection, fictitious capital is wholly illusory and as the basis of capitalism and the basis of financial inequality through the effortless compounding of wealth, it deserves to be destroyed. By destroying embedded capital of Vancouver’s top properties, a devaluation would cause ripple effects within the rest of the housing stock, moving us towards a more affordable city. 3085 Point Grey rd., valued at $74 million is used as a case study upon which to act. Devaluation occurs as housing activism, which exists on a scale from illegal direct action to a bureaucratic legal route. Three strategies are proposed which span this scale : the destruction of a hedge, the connection of a seawall, and a noisy armada.
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How to Destroy Capital : Moral Actors in an Immoral Landscape
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2023-05
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Within our system of advanced capitalism, what was once a means to provide shelter, housing and property are now mere assets, valued as a means of financial returns and wealth accumulation. Though housing deserves protection, fictitious capital is wholly illusory and as the basis of capitalism and the basis of financial inequality through the effortless compounding of wealth, it deserves to be destroyed. By destroying embedded capital of Vancouver’s top properties, a devaluation would cause ripple effects within the rest of the housing stock, moving us towards a more affordable city. 3085 Point Grey rd., valued at $74 million is used as a case study upon which to act. Devaluation occurs as housing activism, which exists on a scale from illegal direct action to a bureaucratic legal route. Three strategies are proposed which span this scale : the destruction of a hedge, the connection of a seawall, and a noisy armada.
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eng
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2023-05-09
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0432043
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Unreviewed
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Graduate
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