• zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    This is the sort of shit you can only pull when a large number of refugees are desperately looking for housing in a state that refuses to accommodate them.

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      It’s not just a westerner thing, look at China before Mao’s reforms. Look at parts of South Africa now. Feudal economic conditions lead to this kind of rent seeking behaviour being taken to the extreme. It’s why Adam Smith hated landlords so much, the whole point of capitalism, to those that actually belive in it, is that’s it’s a progression from feudalism. So this kind of extreme rent seeking behaviour should not be a part of capitalism, according to what I refer to as utopian and idealistic capitalists. However, in actually existing capitalism, neo feudal economic conditions are recreated over time as the rate of profit falls. Which leads to this kind of behaviour and landlord worship.

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      Yes. I have a cousin who bought a place and is renting it out rather than living there because she can’t actually afford the mortgage on her own salary. She’s living with my aunt for free.

      It’s bad, folks. took-restraint

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      Is this the dream of every Westerner to own property that they can rent out?

      That was 90% of the pull of Metaverse™ and NFT grifts, yeah.

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      The average person’s dream is to be able to exploit their neighbors. They won’t say it of course. But they’ll talk about wanting to own property to rent. When my family came here and was poor as hell, my dad considered buying two houses to rent the other.

      Luckily my mom talked him out of it, but that’s because he was planning on doing all the maintenance work and answering calls lol. Wonder how it would’ve played out if they learned that you can be a lazy bum and outsource everything at your leisure and most people won’t be able to complain because housing would be scarce 10 years later.

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      Yep, I know a 22 year old who’s current financial goals in life is looking for rental properties to buy within the next year in his cheap hometown so his parents can manage it

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      That’s capitalism confronted with finite resources, everyone just want to be a renter and reap what they don’t sow

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        i’ve lived like this and trust me you don’t want this. the place becomes infested with bugs and mold and the fridge becomes unusuable because it’s so full and you end up eating out way more which kills alot of the money you saved by living in a shithole.

        Plus god forbit you don’t wake up 2 hours before work and you have to choose between go to work smelling like shit or being 45 minutes late because there’s a line to the shower

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          That sounds like you’ve substituted the word “nice” in the comment you’re replying to for the word “disgusting” and acting like they wrote it

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            the fridge becomes unusuable because it’s so full

            Not because it’s the source of the mold. Even if it’s a double-fridge, with 25 people you’re probably going to get it hopelessly filled.

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                Having furnishings extensive enough to avoid all of the logistical problems involved here would mean basically being in an entirely different situation, because you need quite a lot to have 25 people not stepping on each other’s toes when all each of them has individually is a tiny bedroom.

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          On top of all of that, such places are often noisy as hell because of Burgerland’s special cultural blend of “I got mine” brainworms

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            Eh, I wouldn’t be so misanthropic about this.

            If you’re living in the slum conditions like I used to you aren’t some suburban parasite. You’re likely a broke ass student or a retail serf who is likely queer or an oppressed nationality.

            Sure can it get loud? Yes but any group of people forced into cramped conditions with shitty walls woulld get loud because people make noise and shouldn’t be forced into cramped conditions.

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              It depends on location, then.

              Around here, “pods” are very noisy because they’re contaminated by trust fund cishet white failsons (that are indeed suburban parasites in denial) and the queer or oppressed nationality people that are in the mix get actively and aggressively harassed in such places. It sometimes makes the local news but nothing is done about it.

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    This happens in South Africa too. Building in the city centre gets hijacked/stolen by these “landlords”, that divide all the existing rooms using makeshift materials, and then charge rent for basically living inside a shack inside a stolen abandoned apartment building. Very dangerous, one of these buildings burnt down recently and a lot of people died.

    For those that want an international source, CNN did some coverage on it

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    What an innovating and enterprising individual, bucking the trends of past inefficiencies to provide more efficient cost effective housing to people who need it most. This brave soul truly embodies the best of the Spirit of Capitalism, and the world is better for it!!

    flannel-yellow

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    Poland stop being a garbage fire challenge. Difficulty level: not actually burning actual garbage at record levels that can be observed from space.

    dumpster-fire poland-cool dumpster-fire