Affordability as a Lie. Equality Promised - Privilege Delivered. How the Socialism That Wasn’t Turned Fairness Into a Lottery

An Open Challenge to New York’s Leaders on Equality, Power, and Illusion

De: By Someone Who Lived It

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Why does a city that spends more on housing, healthcare, and social programs than almost anywhere else feel less fair, less safe, and more divided every year?
This book argues that the problem is not lack of compassion - it is illusion.
New York’s policies are built on a comforting belief: that generosity alone produces fairness. But generosity without structure does not create stability. It creates dependency, randomness, and resentment - while insulating failure from correction.
Drawing on lived experience under Eastern European socialism, and decades of work in capitalist systems in New York and London, the author dismantles the modern language of “affordability,” “equity,” and “compassion” to show how good intentions have quietly replaced accountability.
This is not an ideological argument.
It is a structural one.
Inside, readers will discover:

• Why housing lotteries reward luck instead of effort - and fracture trust
• How dependency politics hollow out democracy without abolishing elections
• Why moralizing property destroys order while claiming justice
• How systems that remove consequence quietly punish responsibility
• Why cities collapse not from cruelty, but from refusing to draw lines

This book does not argue against helping people.
It argues that help without pathways, structure, or expectation traps everyone - including those it claims to protect.
Clear, unsentimental, and deliberately uncomfortable, Affordability Is a Lie is written for readers who sense that something fundamental has broken - and want to understand why.