I did some jank estimates and I think the 50 year mortgage thing would stave off the affordability crisis for about 10 years before we're back to where we are now. Then back to the normal increasingly unaffordable housing. Then a total meltdown of material conditions when those loans start getting past 30 years and people become too old/sick to finish paying off their mortgages.
And whatever goofy names/pictures you can come up with for free housing, voting for your boss, free medical care, not bombing people, and free education.
Corporate social media sites are always going to follow a trajectory from vaguely progressive, to "free speech" maximizing, to profit maximizing, to state dept goons on the board, with the only off ramp being if the site implodes before it gets successful enough for the goons to notice. They're always going to wind up as a nazi bar with pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist bias.
Decentralized sites instead follow some rando admin's biases. Are the admin's politics any good? Probably not, most people have shit politics. But a cross section of total randos is still a better diversity of political thought than the repeated systematic trimming that corporate sites have.
I think becoming a careerist sellout is almost guaranteed for people in these positions, for the simple reason that they'll be surrounded by careerist sellouts, and people are social animals who will eventually adopt views more similar to their peers. However, AOC took years to completely sell out, and if it takes Mamdani as long, he'll still be able to accomplish a lot more as mayor during that time than a then-junior congressperson.
I'd make all sorts of inventive high concept scenarios to show off and share with people, but my personal one would just be yet another a tropical sex island.
I did some jank estimates and I think the 50 year mortgage thing would stave off the affordability crisis for about 10 years before we're back to where we are now. Then back to the normal increasingly unaffordable housing. Then a total meltdown of material conditions when those loans start getting past 30 years and people become too old/sick to finish paying off their mortgages.