Organic Mutant

this market is a killah!
bout eighteen months ago mom, dads & i were driving around and noticed an real estate ‘open house’ in the vicinity and dropped in. they’d taken a typical 2bd/1ba bungalow on a medium lot, poured a shite-load of remodeling money including upgrades and a 1bd/1ba addition and were asking 975,000 US dollars for that this — it was basically a copeland type house with typical to the early aught-aughts decorator items, but an old house nontheless. $975,000! A million dollars. That house was on the market for a long time. I don’t recall if they got their asking price or if they ended up occupying it some other way, but I really hope someone dint pay one million dollers for that thing.

oh my tangent, what was my point?

walking through poshington the other day at about mid-morning the streets were completely empty. it was a little eerie. the only people around were lucas and myself. no one else not a soul to be seen. just quiet well-tended homes. there was evidence of people, cars, construction, trash cans, & pets, but not one single person was visible in the first ten minutes of my walk. once i crossed adams ave, i felt not quite so alone as there was heavy traffic to negotiate, but still not one other pedestrian or person about their business had been spotted. i started thinking about your neighborhood, rick, and how vibrant it feels there and casting doubt about our “urban” neighborhood that felt so abandoned that morning.

so i figured all those people are out working hard earning the dinero monetizing their time to pay their fat mortages (cos by now hasn’t everyone monetized their equity?). 25 minutes into my walk i started seeing a lot more people, but i don’t think they were the residents. they were mostly members of the brown market economy™. These men were busy transforming ordinary homes into magnificent homes, maintaining verdant yards, and monetizing real estate for the well-heeled. They were the few people i saw on my walk once i strayed from the main drag.

and thats the point aint it? making others earn your money for you. you argue that they’re feeding their families, but i argue that are vulnerable to exploitation by virtue of their uncertain legal status.

more later on this topic