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Jesus, how hard is it to read?
58% of landlords with fewer than 4 units are owed back rent.
Doesn't really change the point I was making at all, but sure.
Jesus, how hard is it to read?
58% of landlords with fewer than 4 units are owed back rent.
And I don't say they're all slum lords; but they all participate in the archaic relic from feudal times that is landlord tenant arrangements. We can do better than that.
I find this intriguing.So what's your answer free housing for everyone. Who actually pays for it.
Call it whatever you want, but it's a return on their investment.And I don't say they're all slum lords; but they all participate in the archaic relic from feudal times that is landlord tenant arrangements. We can do better than that.
People with 4 units or fewer don’t have a staff of anyone working for them.
A minority percentage of renters have legitimate problems paying rent and your solution is radicalism. Jeez I wonder why nothing ever gets better. You just went from being concerned with renters to wanting to change the entire government and economic system. Do you understand how this kind of radicalism breeds an equal and opposite reaction from the other side?If we could be doing better we would be? That's absolutely not true. Systemic change requires the stripping of power from the powerful, in this case landlords who have organizations that lobby on their behalf. All tenants have on their side is numbers. This pandemic has laid bare a lot of capitalism's failures, this is just one of the more glaring ones.
Yeah, they should go work for peanuts just so someone who owns a building can extract passive income from it.
I find this intriguing.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_article_011314.html
We have public housing for the very poor. For the working poor who make too much to qualify for public housing but nowhere near enough to live on, we have nothing.We have public housing.
That's just drivel. Get an education with what money. Would you advocate for "free" college so people can seek to improve their lot in live without putting themselves in a debt trap?If they are "working for peanuts" maybe they should get a fucking education so they don't have to flip burgers at McDonalds for $5/hour?
Why the fuck should they get to live in someone else's property for free?
How many illegal aliens are you putting up under your roof? Surely a bleeding heart such as yourself must have at least 10 of them you are feeding and clothing, and sleeping in your house, right?
Also, what are they supposed to do while going to school. Work less hours at the job that already doesn't pay enough to get by?If they are "working for peanuts" maybe they should get a fucking education so they don't have to flip burgers at McDonalds for $5/hour?
Why the fuck should they get to live in someone else's property for free?
How many illegal aliens are you putting up under your roof? Surely a bleeding heart such as yourself must have at least 10 of them you are feeding and clothing, and sleeping in your house, right?
Nope, can't buy stocks either especially ETF's because a lot hold REITs as part of their portfolio. Also, you can't have stocks since you're making passive income from the value that has been extracted from labor.It's all passive income. The profit from the rent and gain equity in the property. All the tenant gets out of the deal is the great privilege of not being homeless and having the rent raised on them reliably every year for nothing more in return. You wnat to make money from investments, roll the dice on the stock market, don't ransom a basic necessity of life.
My argument is that things that literally everyone in the world needs such as housing should not be a commodity for individual people to buy up and hold for ransom. And property ownership beng a representation of effort is nowhere near a universal truth. There are plenty of people out there who did nothing to acquire wealth, land, houses and such by doing nothing more than being born into the right family.Call it whatever you want, but it's a return on their investment.
Same basic principle as working. You give up something and in return you get something back. Some people can't invest more than flipping burgers so they get a small return on their investment of time spent doing something everyone else can do.
Property of all types is just a physical representation of effort in plain terms. You want us to do better how? By not rewarding effort, it sounds like.
Good point; lets get rid of the imaginary stock market too.Nope, can't buy stocks either especially ETF's because a lot hold REITs as part of their portfolio. Also, you can't have stocks since you're making passive income from the value that has been extracted from labor.
Also, what are they supposed to do while going to school. Work less hours at the job that already doesn't pay enough to get by?
I'm a plumber. My line of work provides one of the most neccessary commodities. More so than shelter, if you think about it.My argument is that things that literally everyone in the world needs such as housing should not be a commodity for individual people to buy up and hold for ransom. And property ownership beng a representation of effort is nowhere near a universal truth. There are plenty of people out there who did nothing to acquire wealth, land, houses and such by doing nothing more than being born into the right family.
DIdn't say that. You actually provide a service to the people who hire you. Your income isn't passive. You don't just get money every month for owning a plunger.I'm a plumber. My line of work provides one of the most neccessary commodities. More so than shelter, if you think about it.
Should I work for free? It's the exact same thing. How someone came about their property is not your business. Asking market value isn't ransom.
Just because you need something someone else has doesn't mean you're entitled to it, regardless if it's a neccesity or not.
Property is physical representation of effort. Doesn't matter who's effort. What is passive now took effort to become something that is of worth.DIdn't say that. You actually provide a service to the people who hire you. Your income isn't passive. You don't just get money every month for owning a plunger.