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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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