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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 101 points 2 years ago

When I grow up I'ma be a parking spot.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The United States was dealt its final blow half a century ago at the hands of an Alzheimer's patient by the name of Ronald Reagan.

This is the necrotic stage.

[-] machin_shin@lemm.ee 72 points 2 years ago
[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

And what a lovely hat it is.

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

It was the US education system that suffered

[-] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 17 points 2 years ago
[-] Gork@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

If my HoI playthroughs are to be believed, the US will take over all of the Americas and Luxembourg will take over the entirety of Europe and Asia.

Then the final showdown begins.

[-] sigh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Rentlar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

"What's Toronto? You must be talking about The City,"

  • Toronto man
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Canada is a mythical place. Like you can have universal healthcare and bilingual education.

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[-] moriquende@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

A human is definitely generating more value than the parking space, it's just most of it is being stolen by greedy capitalists.

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[-] Monkey_d_luffy@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

They’re making us lose our reasons for living. Life’s too hard and not worth it at this stage. Feel bad for all the babies born everyday. The majority of them are going to have hard lives and grow up too hate every second of it most of the rest of the world.

[-] ox0r@jlai.lu 22 points 2 years ago

Turn that sadness into anger, turn the anger in a deep, boiling rage. You know where to direct it, dismantle the whole system little by little. You know who are the guilty ones, we all do

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

oh, you don't think that the capitalist don't want that? who do you think is going to take power in a revolution?

look back, it is always an authoritarian aristocracy.

if you want to make the world better for the working class, we need to enact reforms, not revolutions.

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[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 42 points 2 years ago

But have you considered there is also less demand for you than a downtown Toronto parking space?? Ha! Check mate!

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

If you squat the parking space does that mean you can raise demand for yourself enough to receive higher compensation than the parking space alone?

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

This is the feudal stage of capitalism where the rich recaptured all the real estate and are making tons of profit just sitting on it.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago

I was looking at Toronto real estate just for the lulz the other day... 150k$ to buy a parking space... First thing I found surprising is that you can buy a parking space (wtf?) But even more surprising... They sell for more than I paid for my condo 10 minutes from downtown Ottawa 10 years ago 😐

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

If you could rent it out for the 27 an hour like they stated above you could start seeing a return in as little as 5 years. Sounds like a great investment.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

It's an amazing investment because it pays for itself AND its value will increase because managers are idiots and are bringing people back to the office.

[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Catch being you have to live in Ottawa.

[-] Ado@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Even as a leftist, this feels like a very silly take. It’s not the spot making anything, it’s like any other resource.

The blight of parking spots all over is definitely an issue, but a property “making” money doesn’t seem like a great argument. Am I being dumb on this?

[-] Talkurt@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

To be sure it’s apples to oranges imo. But, I think, an analogy can be drawn.

Maybe a more accurate way to think about it is that the parking space is worth more to the owner of that company than I am to my current boss at 22.50 us dollars per hour.

And that feels more like apples to apples.

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[-] Techmaster@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Don't open a business downtown unless you have a damn good reason for it. It's a massive real estate monopoly.

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, um, we are going to need y'all to return to the office for, um, "productivity" reasons.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Just looked at a studio apartment at my old complex. It's $2,995 a month. About $100 a day, assuming a 30-day month. You need to pay hotel prices just to live in a studio apartment (with a lease) here.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

When I visited I found one for like $5 a day so wherever they're going they're getting ripped off.

[-] pendingdeletion@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

No you didn’t. There are a total of zero $5/day spots in downtown Toronto.

[-] duffkiligan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

To be fair he might have, if he visited in the 80s

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Or downtown any Western city.

Maybe downtown Nairobi.

[-] force@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

How about we just get rid of parking in cities, so there will be no complaining about how much they charge for parking. Cars are gay as fuck anyways, just have sidewalks, bike roads, and actually good public transport lmao (tbf not something you can exactly find in most of the US & Canada)

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago

Why are you using the word gay as an insult?

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Surely they mean that automobiles are care free, right? ... Right?

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

Try having less thoughts and feelings maybe?

Careful, you might get Georgepilled

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