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Some hoard, some invest. They rent it out at at exactly what it's worth by definition (ie what people will pay for it). If you think being a landlord is easy and a money maker, then become one yourself and win. Oh, you don't have the capital to invest, and if you did you'd rather spend it on other things? Well, yes, the landlord had to find the money to buy the property and not spend it on other things in order to be able to rent it to you.
Of course there are some shitty landlords, just as there some shitty tenants. And it's really important that landlords are regulated. But a lot of people would be totally fucked if they could only stay somewhere if they could buy it.
Most ballsiest copy pasta to post.
Not really copy pasta, but it's a common enough sentiment because it's common sense. I understand it will probably get me banned from this sub for not echoing the official line, but I believe in discussion and sharing ideas so I feel it's worth the risk.
I think it defies common sense, but it sounds good if you only think about it for 10 seconds.
Your position seems to be such that many people, like me and probably some of the other commenters, should have to work until the day we die. We have been working full-time our entire adult lives. We're somewhat educated. We're doing the best we can, but there's no way we could possibly afford to purchase property. So when we get old and gray, when we're 85 years old, maybe you're going to see us working the door at Walmart because there's no other option under your system. And who's benefiting from us paying rent our entire lives? Landlords, but more specifically very rich people who invest in real estate. In other words, they are stealing our retirement to get richer when they're already filthy rich.
And that's not the kind of society I will ever support because I don't think the filthy rich bastards deserve any more money than they already have. They only get it by taking it from us and we need it more.
Class warfare.
We can't force labourers, engineers, supplies to make houses for free. And people shouldn't have to work past retirement age. So we need higher old age security / social security retirement payments.
I agree that the system is currently pulling way too much money to the top. Of course it complicated as the billionaires aren't actually spending much more personally that the multi millionaires - their money mostly is invested in stuff - their worth is just numbers on a computer. The delicate balance on inflation is based much more on the daily spending by the (lower) middle class population. If we instantly distributed the billionaires' money to the working classes we'd cause huge inflation that would negate the benifit.
I know it's not a copypasta. I was taking the piss.
Housing should be a human right.
Just like slavery used to be "common sense." You clearly need Christ. He was a communist. He literally told his followers to live in communes and use their wealth to help everyone, especially the poor and the immigrant, not just those in their own community.
I don't need a made up storey to know that things would be better if people were nicer to each other. Being nice so that a sky fairy doesn't torture you for eternity is ridiculous.
I would love it if we could live in a state where everyone worked hard for everyone else. But there's too many people who are lazy and take advantage of other whenever they can. So we need a framework of regulations to make society function, and we need motivation for people to be productive and pull their weight when they can.