6/ As with most human cruelties, the first step is to unperson the Other. We don't think about Bob or Anne or Mr Johnson the landlord, real people who are going to lose tons of money, money that they have to scrounge back into their budges with overtime or second jobs. >>>
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19/ risk taking is what adults do children don't understand that, I know https://twitter.com/SweetSweetBobo/status/1290407994996461571 …
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20/ Entropy does that. For the analogy to work all you need is for the incentives to shift such that people no longer invest in housing stock (e.g. via maintenance). https://twitter.com/thepoliticsund1/status/1290405590032887808 …
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21/ "making" ? How's that? No one is forcing anyone to rent housing. However, if someone wants to do the work and take the risk of the RE equivalent of maturity transformation - taking long term risk so that others can maintain their options, so be ithttps://twitter.com/lilspacecaseart/status/1290408305311932418 …
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22/ Spoken like a Nazi, talking about Jews. Or a Stalinist, talking about kulaks. Sad. https://twitter.com/miriksmit/status/1290409559006339075 …
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23/ the anti-landlord faction isn't sending us their besthttps://twitter.com/siberianpine/status/1290412997404512257 …
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24/ yes, clearly but this thread is not about landlords taking market risk and losing ; this thread is about exogenous and unprecedented harm caused by government putting a moratorium on evictions https://twitter.com/LiquidPanda_/status/1290411745434054656 …
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25/ nowhere in this thread has anyone said that anything is the tenants fault please read the thread before tagging in and arguing about what you think it maybe probably kinda says https://twitter.com/LiquidPanda_/status/1290414614958743555 …
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26/ This is interesting. I've got some socialists telling me that small landlords are unprofessional and bad at their job, and other socialists telling me that small landlords don't exist / are fictional.https://twitter.com/abandonnuance/status/1290417764864274432 …
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27/ Government unpredictability harms everyone, rich and poor alike. The smart approach to keep people from being evicted is unemployment money, NOT arbitrary ad hoc seizures and transfers. This creates bad incentives. /shrug https://twitter.com/LiquidPanda_/status/1290418955044229121 …
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28/ Is / ought rules everything around me. me: this is a bad policy with bad incentives and it OUGHT not to be done this way rando: yeah but this happens me: yes ... that ... that is implicit in why I am criticizing a thing that just happened.
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