Never been a landlord. I own now (well the bank does and I pay my mortgage), but I’ve spent my time paying rent. I found a place and paid the askiging amount as it was worth it to me And when the landlord upped the rent unreasonably, I told them to fuck off and moved. True, I haven’t been poor by many standards. And I’m sure it sucks to not have enough to pay for necessities. I would want the government to provide a safety net, but I think if everyone just gets everything handed to them, we’d be a lot less of a productive society. And that’s bad, as a productive society increases quality of life for all.
but I think if everyone just gets everything handed to them, we’d be a lot less of a productive society.
That’s what we call a personal opinion that has absolutely zero shreds of historical evidence. AKA a YOU problem.
You think this because that is what you imagine that you would do, and are projecting it onto the rest of us. The rest of us aren’t lazy like you want to be.
My laziness is immaterial. I’m not a landlord or a renter. But communism isn’t very successful really. Most places that tried it are dirt poor and don’t have enough housing and what they do have is pretty shitty. And most are bringing in some sort of ‘competitive market place’. And corruptions is a huge problem (even worse than in capitalist states). China is the big example here and Cuba is another.
You projecting that laziness on everyone else is certainly material. Communism hasn’t been allowed to even be tried there is no imperial evidence that it doesn’t work, and a fair bit of empirical evidence that it does work properly when you stop putting a single person in charge.
My laziness isn’t the issue. But yes the laziness of humans is, and it’s very real and not a terrible thing - it leads to efficiencies. Communism has maybe worked in small commmunities. But I think you’d find some people still get fucked over in those communities.
Never been a landlord. I own now (well the bank does and I pay my mortgage), but I’ve spent my time paying rent. I found a place and paid the askiging amount as it was worth it to me And when the landlord upped the rent unreasonably, I told them to fuck off and moved. True, I haven’t been poor by many standards. And I’m sure it sucks to not have enough to pay for necessities. I would want the government to provide a safety net, but I think if everyone just gets everything handed to them, we’d be a lot less of a productive society. And that’s bad, as a productive society increases quality of life for all.
That’s what we call a personal opinion that has absolutely zero shreds of historical evidence. AKA a YOU problem.
You think this because that is what you imagine that you would do, and are projecting it onto the rest of us. The rest of us aren’t lazy like you want to be.
My laziness is immaterial. I’m not a landlord or a renter. But communism isn’t very successful really. Most places that tried it are dirt poor and don’t have enough housing and what they do have is pretty shitty. And most are bringing in some sort of ‘competitive market place’. And corruptions is a huge problem (even worse than in capitalist states). China is the big example here and Cuba is another.
“if landlords are bad how come communism hasn’t been successful?”
Wtf?
You projecting that laziness on everyone else is certainly material. Communism hasn’t been allowed to even be tried there is no imperial evidence that it doesn’t work, and a fair bit of empirical evidence that it does work properly when you stop putting a single person in charge.
My laziness isn’t the issue. But yes the laziness of humans is, and it’s very real and not a terrible thing - it leads to efficiencies. Communism has maybe worked in small commmunities. But I think you’d find some people still get fucked over in those communities.
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union was building over two million housing units per year, more than any other developed economy in the world.
China literally executes corrupt politicians, what the fuck are you talking about