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Some hoard, some invest. They rent it out at at exactly what it's worth by definition (ie what people will pay for it). If you think being a landlord is easy and a money maker, then become one yourself and win. Oh, you don't have the capital to invest, and if you did you'd rather spend it on other things? Well, yes, the landlord had to find the money to buy the property and not spend it on other things in order to be able to rent it to you.
Of course there are some shitty landlords, just as there some shitty tenants. And it's really important that landlords are regulated. But a lot of people would be totally fucked if they could only stay somewhere if they could buy it.
Was gonna type out explanations about how treating housing, something we all need, like capital is inherently evil. But if you don't get why landlords are leeches you're either one of them and/or you've never been anything approaching poor. I can't imagine thinking there is worth derived from hoarding housing and gouging people to live in it .
It's like trying to debate that the Earth isn't flat. You could spend the time and effort doing it, but you know they'll never actually change their mind.
Housing....and food, water, clothes. Internet, cause how else are you supposed to maintain a job?
For many places with poor or no public transit, you can add transit to that list too. And having a phone. Impossible to hold down a job if you can't get there or you don't have a phone number.
Agree with both.
Corbyn wanted to do a 4 four day week, a Bank Holiday a month, and free Internet for us over here...instead we got the shit show that are the Conservatives.
Never been a landlord. I own now (well the bank does and I pay my mortgage), but I've spent my time paying rent. I found a place and paid the askiging amount as it was worth it to me And when the landlord upped the rent unreasonably, I told them to fuck off and moved. True, I haven't been poor by many standards. And I'm sure it sucks to not have enough to pay for necessities. I would want the government to provide a safety net, but I think if everyone just gets everything handed to them, we'd be a lot less of a productive society. And that's bad, as a productive society increases quality of life for all.
That's what we call a personal opinion that has absolutely zero shreds of historical evidence. AKA a YOU problem.
You think this because that is what you imagine that you would do, and are projecting it onto the rest of us. The rest of us aren't lazy like you want to be.
My laziness is immaterial. I'm not a landlord or a renter. But communism isn't very successful really. Most places that tried it are dirt poor and don't have enough housing and what they do have is pretty shitty. And most are bringing in some sort of 'competitive market place'. And corruptions is a huge problem (even worse than in capitalist states). China is the big example here and Cuba is another.
"if landlords are bad how come communism hasn't been successful?"
Wtf?
You projecting that laziness on everyone else is certainly material. Communism hasn't been allowed to even be tried there is no imperial evidence that it doesn't work, and a fair bit of empirical evidence that it does work properly when you stop putting a single person in charge.
My laziness isn't the issue. But yes the laziness of humans is, and it's very real and not a terrible thing - it leads to efficiencies. Communism has maybe worked in small commmunities. But I think you'd find some people still get fucked over in those communities.
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union was building over two million housing units per year, more than any other developed economy in the world.
China literally executes corrupt politicians, what the fuck are you talking about