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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      I dunno, I don't have an answer I freely admit I have no plans to give away all my money, and I'll even say that while I might indulge in saying "I'm just a bad person like that" I don't think it actually does make me a worse person than average, I mean you haven't done it

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      It just seems to me like black and white textbook Marxist definitions of who's good and who's bad are kind of pat and lead to obvious perversity Like leftist NIMBYs who think the people taking option 2 are heroes have actually really fucked up American cities

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      Like San Francisco has a record homelessness crisis because no one is actually doing 1, a lot of people who think of themselves as hardcore leftists are fervently defending 2, and the majority of people who don't want to be made to feel bad just wash their hands and do 3

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      And everyone's saying the mythic option 4 (be a rich person who voluntarily sets up a low-income housing co-op, or be an angry mob of poor people who seize the property by force to create one) is the only acceptable answer Well, yeah, but it ain't happening

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      I mean I've never had tenants and I've also never run a business with employees And I get the argument "There shouldn't be private business owners with employees, it should be worker-owned co-ops or nothing", just like "Landlords shouldn't exist, only housing co-ops"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      And yet in the world as it is, starting one of those is a huge pain in the ass and nobody does it Not even your socialist favs (Jacobin Magazine is a privately owned business, not a co-op, so is Zero Books, so are most of them)

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      I know it makes me an incrementalist neoliberal shill but hey if all landlords and owners are scum and it doesn't matter how low the rent you charge is or how high the wages you pay are then... The incentive you've created isn't really so much for co-ops as for owners to hide

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      Like my read of it isn't that it means most people with money will go "Okay, I will give up all my power and put the money into a co-op" or "Okay, I will just straight up give all the money away" It'd be "I'll just put my money in the bank or in a mutual fund like everyone else"

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      "It's not ideal but it's easy and comfortable and no one will even see it as a specific action on my part to single me out or yell at me for it I can just forget about it"

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      Am I actually saying "Be nice to landlords so they'll have an incentive to be nice" Well, maybe I kind of am At the very least I'm saying there's a reason to make the distinction between better and worse landlords or bosses

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      The counterargument is that by giving cookies to individual nice landlords you're enabling an overall exploitative system And I guess what I'm saying is... the system is fine with individuals becoming uncomfortable wielding that power, it's already evolved around that discomfort

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

          Like our society is already shot through with mechanisms of abstraction, if you want to make money from the fact that people pay rent without ever knowing the people or making any decisions it's really easy, and the shame-based discourse just guarantees that system will grow

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

          It's like the argument over small business I'm very well aware lots and lots of small businesses suck and are run by awful tinpot tyrants I still think it's worse for the country to have one giant faceless corporation be everyone's employer

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        2. Amy 👁️‏ @Kthranos 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          People get upset at the idea of other people getting money by doing nothing. It's the same argument conservatives make against unemployment.

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        3. Amy 👁️‏ @Kthranos 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Kthranos @arthur_affect

          (and yea I get that there's other problems with renting, but most complaints I see on here are about landlord "rent seekers" not the industry itself)

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I think there are basically two pretty straightforward policy choices to make here: a.) More tenant-friendly regulation, with fee-shifting and other mechanisms to ensure enforcement, and b.) More construction of housing, so that rents can come down, or at least, rise slower.

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        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

          In a lot of urban areas, especially places like San Francisco, it's the lack of (b) that really causes the rent-seeking behavior in the economic sense. The residential housing market is constrained by severe, artificial shortages of supply.

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        2. Mark Trued‏ @MTrued 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          You're way farther into this than I'm capable, but let me say this. The conflicts and disparities exist because business ethics is simply not morality. In any way. I have an acquired disdain for the real estate industry and feel rental should be phased out and banned.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @MTrued

          I would love to see the majority of housing be public housing, which is what I think is the most realistic way out of this nightmarish slough of despond that the real estate market and the ongoing housing crisis is But oh man oh man are there a lot of steps from here to there

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        2. Saadia Toor‏ @pagalpanchi 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I think what’s missing here is that it isn’t just about choosing option 1 (renting out your property) versus option 2 (living in it). It’s also about how *much* you charge in rent (extortionate?) & whether or not you’re an asshole (repairs/maintenance & rent payment deadlines)

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        3. CounselorNachos 🦒‏ @CounselorNachos 23 Apr 2020
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          I think that’s part of his point though. Those nuances are absolutely missed in much of the discourse, which could charitably be dumbed down to “owning real estate bad.”

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