Making people in society feel like they own nothing and are getting milked by those few who do own everything is a good way to see things break down, it’s happening real time, we’re watching it right now in the US.
Wow no thanks, I will decide if and when I replace the roof of my house and who will do it and how. I would really fucking hate the condominium approach of making that a collective decision. That’s why I want nothing other than detached homes, in the forest sepatated by 300-400 meter to the next one !
Ok, but my rent is too high in real life. Can those developers nuke MY landlord?
Considering you likely live in the same building/complex as your landlord, I wouldn’t recommend it.
A lot of YouTubers seem to have recently claimed that their landlords are anonymous corporations with no clear individual proclaimed as owner or responsible party.
Mine are a few blocks away, but ya know what? Worth it. Nuke away.
That’s usually not the case though. These landlords are usually just some anonymous investor, probably living in Dubai or some shit. The small-time landlords are more an exception and usually not the big problem.
I was thinking about why a small landlord might be better, and I know there are exceptions, but usually a small landlord is is not going to squeeze every penny out of their rentals, sometimes out of the goodness of their heart, but most importantly, a small landlord has other ways to be productive.
A small landlord who has a normal job, if they want to improve the world, they do it through their job or personal projects, they build something or create something or whatever.
A big landlord who does nothing else, they aren’t actually creating anything, they’re just rent seeking and the most creative way they can imagine to improve the world is to rent seek even harder.
Our economic system gives greater rewards to those who move money around than to those who create things or cure cancer or anything else. The ways of turning a lot of money into even more money are taxed less (usually not at all) than more common ways of earning money like working a job or creating physical goods. The richest people didn’t get rich by creating something that improves everyone’s lives, they got rich by moving money around.
A small landlord who has a normal job, if they want to improve the world, they do it through their job or personal projects, they build something or create something or whatever.
A big landlord who does nothing else, they aren’t actually creating anything, they’re just rent seeking and the most creative way they can imagine to improve the world is to rent seek even harder.
You’re forgetting: Property Management is a career, and for a reason. Unmaintained properties run into bigger issues until they’re so bad a tenant has to move out – and then a tenant has no place to live without a massive rent increase as the rent is re-based on the prevailing economic rape instead of whatever it was 10 years ago with its 2% yearly increase.
Big landlords are uncaring, but they do manage the property. Good ones manage it well, fixing windows and pipes and pot-holes, etc. Less ‘broken-window effect’ and more peaceful days between goddamned fire alarm testing.
Small landlords, through ignorance or in a belief that they’re too small a fish for government to go after, are often the worst with breaking laws and exploiting tenants.
Small landlords are the cheapest IME, and often act like they are doing you a favour. Big ones are cold, but at least treat people like customers rather than janitors
This week in “simulations trying to mimic reality end up showing why the socialists are right”
This happened in Dwarf Fortress too
It’s almost like a society based on cooperation works better than a society based on competition.
Yeah; seeing this pop up on my feed so close to another story about the increasing concentration of wealth to landlords in Canada made me both chuckle and then sigh.
mao zedong enters the chat
It’s time to have life imitate art.
Recently it has been disclosed that the dev team have added a new member
every time i see that picture i always think of city planner plays :D
